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Objective, Burma! [videorecording] : Never so few; Go for broke!.

Contributor(s): Material type: Film

FilmPublisher number: 67957 | Warner Home VideoLanguage: English, French Subtitle language: English, French, Spanish Publication details: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2006.Description: 2 DVDs (358 min.) : sd., b&w and col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN:

1419826034
9781419826030

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

791.45/72 22
791.45 14

LOC classification:

PN1997.A1 G63 2002

Contents:

[dsc 1] Objective, Burma! / screen play by Ranald MacDougall & Lester Cole; from an original story by Alvah Bessie; produced by Jerry Wald; directed by Raoul Walsh -- [disc 2, side A] Never so few / screen play by Millard Kaufman; based on the novel by Tom T. Chamales; produced by Edmund Grainger; directed by John Sturges ; [side B] Go for broke! / produced by Dore Schary; written and directed by Robert Pirosh.

Cast: Objective, Burma!: Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias, Henry Hull.Cast: Never so few: Frank Sinatra, Gina Lollobrigida, Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen.Cast: Go for broke!: Van Johnson, Lane Nakano, Henry Nakamura.Summary: Objective, Burma! (142 min., b&w): After a group of paratroopers are dropped into the Burmese jungle to destroy a Japanese radar station, they must make their way back through 200 miles of jungles and swamps while avoiding enemy soldiers.Summary: Never so few ( 124 min., col.): Captain Tom Reynolds and his band of skilled O.S.S. operatives are in WWII Burma to train the Kachin natives in jungle guerilla warfare against 30,000 Japanese troops.Summary: Go for broke! (91 min., b&w): "The film's title is the motto of the 442nd US Army Regiment. Set in WW II the unit was formed of Japanese Americans and sent to Europe to fight the Nazis. The exploits of this fine regiment are depicted as they fight their way through Italy, France and into Germany"--Container.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Video Recording	Carleton University, AVRC	SP456 - Collections Room	DVD-03099 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		16050305390

Originally produced as motion pictures in 1945 (Objective, Burma!) by Warner Bros.-First National, 1959 (Never so few) by Canterbury Productions, and 1951 (Go for Broke!) by Loew?s Incorporated.

"Triple feature"--Container.

Never so few is widescreen color. Objective, Burma! and Go for broke! are full screen black and white.

Special features: [disc 1] Vintage shorts, theatrical trailer, cast & crew, Raoul Walsh profile (Objective Burma!); [disc 2, side A] trailers.

DVD (NTSC, region 1); widescreen (Never so few), full screen; Dolby digital, Dolby surround 5.1, mono.

Objective, Burma!: English (mono.) with optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish. Never so few: English (Dolby surround 5.1) or French (mono.) soundtrack; English, French, and Spanish subtitles. Go for broke!: English (mono.).

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