Merrill's Marauders | 
 enlarge | Director: Samuel Fuller
Actors: Claude Akins, Charlie Briggs, Jeff Chandler, Andrew Duggan, Ty Hardin
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 11803
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 98
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 118842
UPC: 085391188421
EAN: 0085391188421
ASIN: B0015S2OWI
Theatrical Release Date: 1962
Release Date: April 22, 2008
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The theatrical trailer included in this DVD release of Merrill's Marauders, touting its depiction of "World War II's most fabulous jungle fighters… (as) they showed the world what the American soldier can do," makes director Samuel Fuller's 1962 film sound like jingoistic propaganda, but it's considerably more than that. The year is 1944; the U.S. Army's 5307th Composite Unit, a 3000-strong outfit under the command of Brigadier General Frank Merrill (Jeff Chandler), has already been fighting the occupying Japanese forces in the wilds of Burma for several months when they're assigned to march hundreds of miles through jungles, swamps, and mountains to Myitkyina, a town of considerable strategic importance and the gateway to India, where the Allies fear the Japanese and Nazis will meet and consolidate their forces. Mission impossible? So it would seem, as the men are exhausted, disease-ridden, disheartened, and ill-equipped; his second in command, Lt. Stockton (Ty Hardin), argues that they'll never make it, but Merrill (who has a heart condition that could bring him down at any moment) refuses to let up. There are numerous combat sequences, most of them quite convincing (including a very cool scene in a concrete maze), but the film's strength lies not only in its graphic chronicling of the obvious horrors of war but in its sympathetic (but never condescending) portrayal of the more quotidian aspects of these soldiers' miserable lives, from easy banter to quarrels over food and ammunition, from the interactions with locals to the sheer hell of simply walking another step when you've already passed the limits of human endurance. Grim, gritty, intense, and realistic (Fuller was an Army vet himself), this is an effective precursor to the director's best-known movie, The Big Red One. --Sam Graham
Product Description
Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill leads the 3000 American volunteers of his 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional) aka "Merrill's Marauders" behind Japanese lines across Burma to Myitkyina pushing beyond their limits and fighting pitched battles at every strong-point.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE/MILITARY & WAR UPC: 085391188421 Manufacturer No: 118842
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War as it is October 12, 2008
Merrill's Marauders comprises the title of this fighting group whose aim was to cut off the potential linkage of Japanese troups with those of the Axis' powers. A true story, this 3,000 strong American army, marched through the hellish jungles of Indian-Burma borderland. Catching various diseases (typhoid, malaria), bitten by leaches, snake bites and other and suffering malnutrition the group reaches their first destination - a jungle strong point. Recouperating from the ordeal they are sure that they soon will be sent home, many of them already battle seasoned from the beaches of Guadalacanal. Instead, they are summoned to make one last effort in support of the British and Commonwealth forces and go in pursuit of an enemy airfield holding the key to the region. Col Merrill and his men, now reduced to a decimal of the original force nearing final exhaustion manage to attack and seize their target and are finally relieved of duty, now only 100 men strong. If you want to see how leadership is tested, when support from above is miniscule and you only have your own strength and that of your men to rely upon...then this is the film for you.
A look at war in the China Burma theater of ops - WW2 September 26, 2008
Movies really can't do justice to the reality of war. This
film gives you a view of the hardships and struggles the
Marauders when through to accomplish their mission (s).
They fought a thankless "make do" war with almost no support.
But they fought and won.
 jeff's last film June 14, 2008
this was a partnership between warner brothers and a filipino film company. It starred Jeff Chandler as Brig. General Frank Merrill who's whose company were top jungle fighters during WW2 in the CBI theater of operations. Other solid names in this production were some of the Warners stock company, Ty Hardin, Claude Akins, Andrew Duggan, Will Hutchins, and Peter Brown. It's a nice war film most notable by being Jeff Chandler's last film before going in for back surgery which was horribly botched leading to Jeff's premature death at the age of forty two.
A Relative Review June 6, 2008
I've seen this movie many times since it stated showing up on TV. The real General Frank Merrill was my grandmother's first cousin. I believe the movie to be very accurate. I wish it had shown what happened to Frank Merrill after the war. He went on to be Highway Commisioner of New Hampshire and died in 1955. He is buried at West Point and if you look directly behind his stone you will see the grave of General Stillwell, his commander during the Burma Campaign. I will be adding this movie to my collection ASAP!
Finally May 31, 2008
I have always wanted a widescreen version of the movie and now it is finally out and is a very good presentation. For those of you who don't know, Jeff Chandler was injured while making this movie and died of complications in the operation to fix the problem.
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