'Burma'

Yeah--it might have gone over better later had it been a British unit that did the mission, but you have to remember that Hollywood was still turning out war films to keep the population firmly behind the war effort. It was shot in California for money reasons and because there was still fighting going on in Burma at the time. Most of the gaffs in this film have long since been discussed and re-discussed--but the ones I seem to like are the obscure ones: like a supposedly dead Japanese soldier flinching at a near-by sfx explosion and tropical looking plants seeded among the California fauna to make it look, well--tropical. Still, we get to see some of our favorite character actors of the time doing their stuff--and Errol doing Errol.

I noticed this too. There's an episode of The World at War series (''It's a lovely day tomorrow'') that highlights the real C-B-I front. Most of the country is terribly wet. The grasses the soldiers were lying in and walking through during the film would have been full of insects, snakes, and assorted vermin in a real jungle. Anyways, the set doesn't detract much from the film's message. I gave it 7 stars.