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	Raid at Cabanatuan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Raid on Cabanatuan in the Philippines on 30 January 1945 by US Army Rangers and Filipino guerrillas resulted in the liberation of more than 500 prisoners of war (POWs) from a Japanese POW camp near Cabanatuan and was a celebrated, historic achievement involving Allied special forces during World War II.
		The raid was re-created, with great attention to historical accuracy, in the 2005 John Dahl film The Great Raid.
		On 14 December 1944, as the Americans consolidated their forces to prepare for the main invasion of Luzon, nearly 150 Americans were executed by their Japanese captors in a POW camp at the island of Palawan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Raid_at_Cabanatuan (2277 words)

	The Great Raid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Raid is a 2005 war film which tells the story of the January 1945 liberation of the Cabanatuan Prison Camp during World War II.
		Thus, the Japanese portrayals are historically accurate, and the accurate level of brutality was historically the result of the occupying military forces, rather than a nationwide practice in Japan, although survivors would testify that women and children were equally brutalized.
		That winter, the 6th Ranger Battalion of the American Army, aided by Filipino guerillas, staged the Raid at Cabanatuan, a large attack on the camp in order to rescue the remaining prisoners.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Great_Raid (467 words)

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		His prediction for accomplishing the raid was thirty minutes or less.
		The feat was celebrated equally by MacArthur's soldiers, Allied correspondents, and the American public, for the raid had touched an emotional nerve among Americans concerned about the fate of the defenders of Bataan and Corregidor.
		The raid also marked the high point of cooperation between Rangers, guerrillas, Alamo Scouts, and conventional American combat units.
	www.fecgp.org /html/greatraid.html (1301 words)

	iJeff --Review of The Great Raid
		A few years later, The Great Raid tells of the rescue of 511 of the POWs from one camp over five days in January, 1945 as the Americans retook the Philippines and saved as many prisoners as possible from being killed as the Japanese retreated.
		In Japanese-controlled Manila, Connie Nielsen stayed around as a nurse and a member of the Philippino underground, largely to help smuggle supplies to her dreamboat Joseph Feinnes, a POW in the camp the movie is about.
		Since we already know the end, that the raid was successful and we won the war, I thank the filmmakers for how they show the climax.
	www.geocities.com /eeyorejeff/Movies/2005/greatraid.html (709 words)

	IGN: The Great Raid Review
		The film tells the incredible story of one of America's most successful POW rescue missions in history, the raid on Cabanatuan, during which 500 American POWs were rescued from the perilous conditions at the hands of their Japanese captors.
		Sitting and watching The Great Raid, I was reminded of great movies set in prisoner of war camps such as The Great Escape, Stalag 17 and David Lean's brilliant masterpiece, Bridge on the River Kwai.
		Great Raid is empty in that sense, filled with one dimensional caricatures of great men.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/641/641289p1.html (895 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: The Great Raid (xhtml)
		The difference between "Stealth" and "The Great Raid" is the difference between the fantasies of the Pentagon architects of "shock and awe" and the reality of the Marines who were killed in Iraq last week.
		In both this raid and a larger, more famous one at the nearby Los Banos camp, the challenge was to rescue the POWs before the Japanese felt the enemy was close enough to trigger the deaths of their prisoners.
		The raid itself, when it comes, is at night, and would be hard for us to follow except that it follows so precisely the plans that were earlier outlined.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/REVIEWS/50803001/1023 (924 words)

	Amazon.com: The Great Raid (Widescreen Director's Cut): DVD: John Dahl,Benjamin Bratt,James Franco,Robert Mammone,Max ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Adapted from the books The Great Raid on Cabanatuan and Ghost Soldiers, it chronicles the five-day mission (in late January 1945) to rescue 511 American prisoners of war held by the Japanese at Cabanatuan POW camp in the Philippines.
		The Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor by William B. Breuer
		In fact it pays great homage to the work of the Philippine people, underground resistance (a portion of the film which seemed a bit out of place in the film but which had me enamored and on edge), and guerilla fighters, all of which touched me deeply.
	www.amazon.com /Great-Raid-Widescreen-Directors-Cut/dp/B000BOH8UA (2577 words)

	Great Raid, The (2005): Reviews
		A gripping depiction of human resilience, the film vividly brings to life the personal courage and audacious heroism that allowed a small but stoic band of World War II soldiers to attempt the impossible in the hopes of freeing their captured brothers.
		The Great Raid is perhaps more timely now than it would have been a few years ago, when "smart bombs" and a couple of weeks of warfare were supposed to solve the Iraq situation.
		The Great Raid cries out for the kind of B-movie industriousness that Dahl brought to his early, low-budget films noirs (Kill Me Again, Red Rock West and The Last Seduction), but instead it has dreams of sugarplum Oscars dancing in its head, and never stops mistaking spectacle for the truly spectacular.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/greatraid (1676 words)

	Laramie Movie Scope: The Great Raid
		December 8, 2005 -- “The Great Raid” is a throwback to the war movies of the 1940s when the Japanese were portrayed as entirely evil and the Americans and their allies were entirely good.
		It is a fl-and-white story of a brilliantly executed raid to rescue 500 American POWs wrapped with a flimsy cloth of anti-occupation spy intrigue and romance.
		In this film, the viewer is made to understand the lay of the land, the layout of the camp, and the mission of each group of soldiers in the operation.
	www.lariat.org /AtTheMovies/new/gr8raid.html (971 words)

	DVD Review: The Great Raid
		The Great Raid is simply a GREAT movie that shows the courage of all the troops that fought during War World II through the story of a group of soldiers who face overwhelming odds to rescue POWs from a Japanese camp.
		The Great Raid shows the courage of the soldiers in World War II Every actor in the movie does an excellent job in their roles, and Dahl’s handling of the story and the pace make the film extremely rewarding to any fan of war movies or history.
		The Great Raid is one of the best War World II movies to come out in the past years, and shows the strength and courage of the soldiers during that time.
	dvd.monstersandcritics.com /reviews/article_10654.php/DVD_Review_The_Great_Raid (1372 words)

	The Great Raid: Collector's Series (2005)
		Set in the Philippines in 1945, The Great Raid tells the true story of the 6th Ranger Battalion, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci (Benjamin Bratt) who undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds.
		The Great Raid appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.40:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
		The show gets into the history of the raid and aspects of the story, sets and production logistics, research and realism, characters and their depiction, and personal connections to the material.
	dvdmg.com /greatraid.shtml (2558 words)

	The Great Raid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		War is hell on character and pacing in "The Great Raid." Recounting what it calls the most successful rescue mission in U.S. military history, the film brings a spectacular but little-known chapter of World War II to the big screen with meticulous attention to period detail -- and almost none to compelling narrative.
		"Raid" opens with almost five minutes of background exposition, but apparently the intention was not to clear the way for character-driven storytelling.
		The film closes with period footage of people involved in the raid, which serves only to underscore the lack of emotional resonance in the preceding dramatization.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001008864 (674 words)

	Power Line: Mass murder one atrocity at a time
		About the only thing to be said on behalf of "The Great Raid," a tedious World War II epic that slogs across the screen like a forced march in quicksand, is that it illustrates a depressing similarity between reckless war-mongering and grandiose moviemaking.
		In that "The Great Raid" earns Holden's criticism on this ground too suggests that "The Great Raid" is a notable and worthy film.
		That is the story of "The Great Raid." In the case of "The Great Raid," meticulous re-enactment merits congratulations and thanks.
	powerlineblog.com /archives/011351.php (1502 words)

	The Great Raid review, The Great Raid DVD review
		Thus Miramax, eventually, releases “The Great Raid,” the “true” story of the 6th Ranger Battalion’s rescue of 500 American soldiers from a Japanese POW camp in 1945.
		Normally this would be fine, as the raid at the end is thrilling, but unfortunately the characters, so painstakingly cultivated, are dull as dirt thanks to the bland acting of Hollywood B-listers.
		Accompanying the raid storyline is that of Margaret Utinsky (Connie Nielsen), a nurse working with the Filipino underground to smuggle medicine to the POW’s.
	www.bullz-eye.com /mguide/reviews_2005/the_great_raid.htm (723 words)

	The Great Raid - ComingSoon.net Movie Reviews
		Essentially, the film is made up of three distinct stories told simultaneously: that of the prisoners-of-war (POWs) and what they endured, the story of those dedicated to rescuing them, and the story of a female freedom fighter in Manila trying to smuggle much-needed medicine to her imprisoned lover.
		Presumably he was a fan of those old war movies, because he uses a similar formula to introduce and flesh out the different characters and their relationships, rather than resorting to the flashy effects and camerawork seen in far too many recent war films.
		The story behind The Great Raid is fairly interesting, showing a part of WWII that hasn't been seen much in recent movies.
	comingsoon.net /news/reviewsnews.php?id=10773 (918 words)

	Reviews: The Great Raid - Christianity Today Movies
		The Great Raid was shot three years ago, and is being released to theatres only now—possibly because this summer marks the 60th anniversary of the war's end, or possibly because the Weinstein brothers are leaving Miramax next month and want to flush a few more films out of their system before they go.
		The Great Raid is rated R for strong war violence—including charred corpses, soldiers being burned alive and machine-gunned, various explosions, the occasional stabbing, and numerous bullet wounds—and brief language.
		The Great Raid stars Benjamin Bratt (Catwoman) as a brusque colonel, James Franco (Spider-Man 2) as a captain, Joseph Fiennes (Shakespeare in Love) as a prisoner of war suffering from malaria, and Connie Nielsen (Demonlover) as a courageous nurse.
	www.christianitytoday.com /movies/reviews/greatraid.html (1659 words)

	Great Raid, The
		The actual raid, when it arrives in the third act, bursts with the frenetic energy and pace missing from the first two-thirds of the film, but unfortunately it’s too little, too late.
		The successful raid inspires no hope in the viewer, merely a relief that the film will soon be over.
		Sitting on the shelf for a couple of years, The Great Raid is one the films getting dumped on an unsuspecting public in the wake of the Weinsteins’ split with parent company Disney.
	www.pajiba.com /great-raid-the.htm (912 words)

	calendarlive.com: MOVIE REVIEW - 'The Great Raid'
		John Dahl's World War II saga "The Great Raid" begins with a lengthy, painstaking preamble to a lengthy, painstaking reenactment of the raid on Cabanatuan.
		Based on two books, "The Great Raid on Cabanatuan" by William B. Breuer and "Ghost Soldiers" by Hampton Sides, the movie will dutifully spackle over every last gap in your education and even allow for dry time.
		The story begins three years later (about as long, incidentally, as "The Great Raid" moldered on Miramax's shelves), when Col. Mucci (Benjamin Bratt) decides to stage a rescue mission that has no strategic value to the war.
	www.calendarlive.com /movies/chocano/cl-et-thegreatraidaug12,0,5585817.story (551 words)

	WaffleMovies.com - The Great Raid
		Believe me, the raid and the POWs desperate fight for survival is compelling enough.
		He is fine as the raid's planner, but he can do much more than this, and might have had more lines if Dahl and the writers didn't feel the need to include all of the Manila Underground stuff.
		He films great action scenes as the anticipated battle is waged by the liberators, and handles the rangers' ultimate crisis and possible solution with great skill, careful to show us how everyone pitches in.
	www.wafflemovies.com /greatraid.html (617 words)

	‘Great Raid’ uncovers forgotten WWII battle - AT THE MOVIES - MSNBC.com
		“The Great Raid,” one of a rush of delayed films the company finally is releasing, turns out to be an engaging World War II tale spotlighting a forgotten engagement in the Pacific campaign.
		A hybrid of “The Great Escape” and “Saving Private Ryan,” though it’s a cinematic skirmish compared to those masterpieces of war, “The Great Raid” presents a stirring story that puts a human face on the despair of POWs simply hoping to survive until their liberators arrive.
		Based on two books chronicling the actual events — William B. Breur’s “The Great Raid on Cabanatuan” and Hampton Sides’ “Ghost Soldiers” — the film is told through three interlocking stories, each given fairly equal weight and time.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/8872793 (757 words)

	The Great Raid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Though the climax of the film -- the actual raid -- is exciting, the rest of it is bogged down in too many subplots and runs on for too long.
		Although the story of The Great Raid may have never been told on film, it's like every other POW movie, in this case made about 45 years too late.
		Delayed since 2003, John Dahl's dust-collecting WWII chronicle The Great Raid finally arrives with the dull thud of a bomb that fails to detonate on impact.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/great_raid (1057 words)

	The Great Raid
		I informed them that I had accepted The Great Raid opportunity and would not be available until July 21.
		As we were hanging out celebrating our great day a fine gentleman wandered through and I simply said asked if he had enjoed his day as much as I. We went into some detail as to why an Engineer from Canada was on set but he agreed it would be a great opportunity.
		He is so happy that he got a great shot.."I could be wrong but it seemed that Ben looked right at me when I took the photo" he quibbed mater-of-factly.
	seansherry.tripod.com /downunder/id19.html (9517 words)

	Movie Spoiler for the film - THE GREAT RAID
		We then briefly see Margaret in a scene where she is trying to depart with a group of Filipino refugees to safety.
		She sobs over his body and one of the soldiers gives her a letter he wrote to her shortly before the raid commenced.
		He congratulates them on their success and tells them this operation will bring great pride not only to the army but also to the American people.
	www.themoviespoiler.com /Spoilers/greatraid.html (4211 words)

	Straight.com Vancouver \| Movie Reviews \| The Great Raid
		The Great Raid is possibly the first American movie to address the Filipino contribution to WWII, and it is about a campaign of humanitarian rather than strategic importance.
		We follow young Capt. Prince (James Franco of the Spider-Man series), charged with leading the raid, as he presses his enigmatic superior (Benjamin Bratt) for more time, seeks intelligence, organizes his limited troops, and explains his analysis to the squad leaders.
		While heâs dying, so is the movie, which could also be called The Great Raid Plus a Lot of Not-So-Great Sentimental Crapola.
	www.straight.com /content.cfm?id=12105 (346 words)

	The Great Raid Review :: Hollywood.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Well-meaning, but ultimately dull, The Great Raid fails to live up to its glorious-sounding title.
		Visually, the film looks great, and the battle scenes are action-packed, though too one-sided (I know, I know, that's how it really happened.) But without any emotional investment in the characters, I simply didn't care if they were successful with the raid.
		While The Great Raid attempts to recapture the honor and glory of old school war movies, the result is an uninspired piece of fluff that lacks emotion and suspense.
	www.hollywood.com /movies/reviews/movie/2443787 (934 words)

	Blogcritics.org: DVD Review: The Great Raid
		The Great Raid is such a display of craft, but it also affirms its commitment to narrative, while not entirely forgetting the people who, after all, made the narrative happen.
		This may not be such a great achievement — I'm a sucker for such sharp and compelling demands — but Dahl never proselytizes; he merely ticks off the events, one after another, allowing me with natural ease to side with the tortured and neglected, and rail against the oppressor.
		That is the great trick the war movie — or the crime film, or the Western — plays: It distracts one from moral dilemmas long enough to follow moral imperatives.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2006/05/19/103208.php (1185 words)

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