i'm wondering if someone can tell me the name of a movie i saw a long long long time ago?it's about british or commonwealth forces fighting the japanese. lots of jungle combat.thanks.

Could you narrow it down any mlb63? Actors, plot, anything like that? I can think of a couple it might be.

sorry.i saw the movie when i was about five.and my dad's memory is'nt what it once was.

maybe about the chindits.

Didn't Errol Flyn do one where he led a group across Burma/China. I think it had something to do with the Chindits, or maybe Merrel's Marauders. Other than that the only other one I can think of is Bridge Over River Kwai but there was no big battle scenes in it

was it in colour there was too late the hero with michael cain in it?

Maybe "Objective Burma" with Errol Flynn or "Task Force Z" with Mel Gibson. What year were you five years old?

Shaun

Too late the Hero is the one I was kind of thinking of. It starred Michael Caine and also Cliff Robinson as an American who was drafted to go along on a mission with the Brits. I'm trying to remember the name of another one that has a scene with four Brit soldiers sitting around singing a song, "Glorious, victorious, one pint of beer between the four of us", but I don't remember much more.

i'll have to try too late the hero because the movie i'm thinking of was in colour.thanks everyone ,i'll let you know if it's the one.

Mlb63, believe it or not Too Late the Hero was on the ACTN channel this morning. Let's see if any of this jogs your memory. Cliff Robinson played a U.S. Navy Lt, lefttenant to you, who was pretty much a coward but got trapped into going on a mission with some British soldiers. Michael Caine played a cockney, like my mum, who was a medic and a real trouble maker. I can't think of the guy who played the British Captain but he's best known for playing Indiana Jone's boss in the Indiana Jones films. There were several character actors that I've seen around, two of them also played in the movie Flight of the Phoenix.

The plot was that this mission had to go behind Japanese lines on Rabaul to knock out a Japanese radio station so that Robinson, who spoke Japanese, could broadcast a phony report. This was to mask a American naval convoy that was going through the straights. The Brit captain was a gun ho upper crust type, neither Robinson or the Brit soldiers really wanted to go along. They wind up getting trapped behind the lines and being chased by the Japanese.

Does any of this ring a bell?

it sounds right on the money.ta rodger.