Geronimo1967
With the USA still reeling from the bombing of Pearl Harbour, their military decides to set up a squad of highly trained soldiers to head deep into Japanese occupied territory to engage in some perilous sabotage activities. Led by the determined and experienced Thorwald (Randolph Scott), a squadron is formed - many of whom are civilians - from scratch and trained in all of the arts of jungle warfare before embarking to face an enemy whom they know will outnumber and outgun them, entrenched on a pacific island. The dramatic elements here arent really anything special, not was Scott ever especially potent on screen, I think. What does make this a little more interesting is the provenance of the story - a variation of this platoon really did e...