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Director: Edward Dmytryk
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From Time Out Film Guide
Big John is the cowboy in colonel's clothing organising guerilla attacks against the Japanese in the Philippines while waiting for the main forces to arrive. Designed as a tribute to the Filipino resistance, it's fast, vigorous and quite exciting, but marred by incessant flag-waving, the usual racist depiction of the enemy, and some atrocious sentimentality (featuring not only a heroic small boy, but Quinn's Filipino sweetheart, who becomes a sort of Tokyo Rose for the Japs while passing information on the side).Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: John Wayne, Anthony Quinn, Beulah Bondi, Lawrence Tierney, Paul Fix, Fely Franquelli full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 97 mins
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