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Merrill's Marauders
enlarge	Director: Samuel Fuller Actors: Claude Akins, Charlie Briggs, Jeff Chandler, Andrew Duggan, Ty Hardin Studio: Warner Home Video Category: DVD List Price: ~~$19.98~~ Buy New: $11.64 You Save: $8.34 (42%) New (33) Used (6) from $11.64 Avg. Customer Rating: 20 reviews Sales Rank: 4918 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: WARD027312D UPC: 085391188421 EAN: 0085391188421 ASIN: B0015S2OWI Theatrical Release Date: 1962 Release Date: April 22, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days Condition: Brand New and Factory Sealed Item Fast Shipping

Editorial Reviews: Product Description An american army unit battles through the jungles of burma reaches their objective but then finds that the real fighting is yet to come. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 04/22/2008 Starring: Jeff Chandler Claude Akins Amazon.com 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

Customer Reviews: Read 15 more reviews... Some inaccuracies November 30, 2008 As a young Air Force corpsman stationed at Clark airbase during the filming of Merrill's Marauders, I had the opportunity to be on the set several times as the "resident" medical person in case of an accident or injury and had a short scene in the film with Andy Dugan that ended up on the cutting room floor. I met all the stars and had a ball. Besides, I got paid $20 per day and they served a great box lunch. One of the blogs I have read says that the extras were members of the Army Special Forces. That is not true, they were air force folks. Another blog states that Jeff injured his back while making the movie. That, too, is incorrect. He came to the Philippines with a serious back injury. It was exacerbated by the extreme work he did on the film. I worked in the orthopedic ward at the time of the filming and he slept on a hard mattress in our ward at night and was frequently in need of pain medicine. A doctor there told him that he should wait until he returned to the US to have surgery. He did so, and you know the rest of the story. Great movie. Jeff Chandlers last movie before his death. His back was hurt in fliming movie and died of comp. from surgery. October 21, 2008 Great Movie. Lots of young stars, but now they are old or gone. Great movie history. Lots of these guys got their start in this flim. One bad part is that this was Jeff Chandlers last movie. He hurt his back while fliming this movie. And died from comp. from the surgery on his back.Very sad he was a great star. 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.