Wuchak
William Holden stuck between Communist fighters and the Brits in Southeast Asia
A former OSS officer who helped the Malaysian guerillas during WW2 (Holden) is now a mogul there in 1953. His prior comrade in the jungle (Tetsurô Tanba) now leads the Communistic revolutionaries, who carry out terrorist attacks as the British strategize their departure from the independence-minded colony. Wanting to stay neutral, Major Ferris finds himself caught between these two forces.
Since "The 7th Dawn (1964) features William Holden involved with militarists in a Southeast Asian jungle, it naturally brings to mind The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), but its closer to Brandos "The Ugly American" (1963), just with loads of jungle action in the ...