Rating: NR
Genre:
War
Release Date: 04/22/2008
SubTitles: French/English
Dubbed: English
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 98 Minutes
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Jeff Chandler stars as American brigadier-general Merrill, commanding a regiment in Burma during World War II. Surrounded on all sides by the Japanese, Merrill's Marauders nonetheless accomplish their objective-only to be ordered into another mission with barely a chance to breathe. Again and again this happens, and again and again the Marauders remain fiercely loyal to the dauntless Merrill. This "war doesn't take vacations" theme is a common one running through the combat films of director
Samuel Fuller; only the censorship strictures of 1962 prohibit Fuller from fully illustrating the sheer Hell that was the Pacific War. Adapted by Fuller and producer
Milton Sperling from a novel by
Charlton Ogburn Jr.,
Merrill's Marauders represented Jeff Chandler's last film work.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide