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Director, Screenplay, Story. Lukas Heller. Screenplay. Robert Sherman. Story. Written by on June 3, 2023. A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan.
Synopsis. A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heroes' are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese ...
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[29] [30] Gene Siskel gave the film one star out of four and wrote, "The essence of an action film is action, and that's precisely what's missing in Robert Aldrich's 'Too Late the Hero.' Oddly enough, Aldrich, who directed 'The Dirty Dozen,' substitutes boredom in the form of an annoyingly long prolog, repititious scenes, and combat in a closed space."
Mar 28, 2019 · In Too Late the Hero (1970), the last of Aldrich’s informal war trilogy, these themes collide and cross-cancel, leaving the viewer lost and bloody in a nihilistic no-man’s-land much like the setting that opens and closes the film. In his 1955 essay “Notes on a Revolution,” critic and soon-to-be New Wave filmmaker Jacques Rivette ...
Jul 8, 2016 · Too Late the Hero’s action centers on a Pacific island during WWII, but the palm trees, administrative miscalculations and dubious suicidal missions situate the film most unmistakably in the post-Vietnam climate of righteous fury. Cliff Robertson and Michael Caine costar as a US lieutenant and a British soldier ordered, against their wishes, to conduct a raid on a Japanese communications base.
Jan 4, 2016 · A World War 2 film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heros' are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base.
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A reluctant hero, American Lt. Sam Lawson, is secunded to a motley British unit tasked with destroying a Japanese radio on a Philippine island. Trailer Too Late the Hero Directed by
