The Great Raid
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| Directed by | John Dahl |
| Produced by |
Lawrence Bender Marty Katz |
| Written by | Carlo Bernard Doug Miro |
| Starring |
Benjamin Bratt James Franco Connie Nielsen Marton Csokas Joseph Fiennes |
| Music by | Trevor Rabin |
| Cinematography | Peter Menzies Jr. |
| Edited by | Scott Chestnut Pietro Scalia |
| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
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132 minutes |
| Country | United States Australia |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $80 million |
| Box office | $10.8 million |
The Great Raid is a 2005 war film about the Raid at Cabanatuan on the island of Luzon, Philippines during World War II. It is directed by John Dahl and stars Benjamin Bratt, James Franco, Connie Nielsen, Marton Csokas, Joseph Fiennes with Motoki Kobayashi and Cesar Montano. The principal photography took place from July 4, to November 6, 2002, but its release was delayed several times from the original target of fall 2003. The film is adapted from two books, William Breuer's The Great Raid on Cabanatuan City and Hampton Sides' Ghost Soldiers.
The film opened in theaters across the United States on August 12, 2005, three days before the 60th anniversary of V-J Day.
The real-life efforts of Filipino guerrillas are also specifically highlighted, especially a stand at a bridge that delayed Japanese reinforcements. These units fought alongside Americans against Japanese occupiers during the war.
In 1944, American forces were closing in on the Japanese-occupied Philippines. The Japanese held around 500 American prisoners who had survived the Bataan Death March in a notorious POW camp at Cabanatuan and subjected them to brutal treatment and summary execution, as the Japanese view surrender as a disgrace. Many prisoners were also stricken with malaria.
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