Ambush Bay
| Ambush Bay | |
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1966 film poster
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| Directed by | Ron Winston |
| Produced by |
Hal Klein Aubrey Schenck |
| Written by |
Ib Melchior Marve Feinberg |
| Starring |
Hugh O'Brian Mickey Rooney James Mitchum Tisa Chang Peter Masterson Harry Lauter |
| Music by | Richard LaSalle |
| Cinematography | Emmanuel I. Rojas |
| Edited by | John F. Schreyer |
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Production
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Courageous Films
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| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Release date
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Running time
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109 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Ambush Bay is a 1966 American war film, filmed on location in the Philippines and starring Hugh O'Brian, Mickey Rooney and James Mitchum.
Prior to the 1944 American invasion of the Philippines a hand-picked team of U.S. Marine Corps amphibious reconnaissance scouts is landed by a PBY Catalina with the mission of contacting an intelligence agent who has crucial information. Each Marine is not only experienced but has a special skill with the exception of the radio operator, PFC Grenier (James Mitchum).
Grenier, an air crew radioman with only six months in the Corps is taken off the PBY's air crew when the original radio operator suddenly became medically unfit for the mission. He is given the sick Marine's radio and camouflage jacket to carry on his first ground combat mission. He serves as a narrator to the audience.
After meeting up with their guide (Manual Amado), the patrol commander Captain Alonzo Davis (Lieutenant Colonel Clement J. Stadler who had been awarded the Navy Cross and who also acted as the film's technical advisor) is killed while ambushing a small group of Japanese soldiers, and First Sergeant Corey (Hugh O'Brian, recognized as one of the youngest Drill Instructors to have served in the USMC) takes command.
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