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Post by VeeVee on Jul 27, 2006 12:04:48 GMT -5
Me too. When I get a chance I might order a couple of VHS's. I'll just transfer them to DVD for better preservation.
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Post by legionnaire on Jul 27, 2006 14:41:22 GMT -5
Did you notice that they warned that it will take a couple of weeks to make the copies! very poor and inefficent process of them considering the price they are asking! Philip
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Post by VeeVee on Jul 28, 2006 8:46:57 GMT -5
I sent them an email asking about the "Punit na Bandila". Let's see if they find it.
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Post by yamota on Jul 28, 2006 13:06:41 GMT -5
I've actually already ordered a couple of VHS tapes from them last year, but neither of them has a WWII theme. One is "Pulot Gata" and the other is "Beatnik", both movies from the 50s, considered to be the golden age in Philippine movies. The quality is okay, these tapes were direct transfer from the master and were not digitally remastered or anything so the quality of the copy matches the quality of the film master. Unlike in Hollywood, I don't think most classic filipino movies are stored in climate controlled environments so the usual quality problems related to exposure and age are obvious.
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Post by arm61uic on Jun 14, 2007 23:27:11 GMT -5
4. The Longest Hundred Miles - I'm not really sure about the title but it starred Ricardo Montalban and a teen Vilma Santos. They were supposedly in an alternative fuel run bus with Ricardo Montalban as a Priest and Vilma as one of the children in the bus running from the Japanese (Vic Diaz). I can't remember where they were headed and what happened at the end. Milspec Ah yes, I loved this movie when I was a boy! In addition to Ricardo Montalban, this also starred Doug McLure as an American soldier who escapes the Bataan dath march, and Katharine Ross as an American nurse. I believe this also starred Ronald Remy as a filipino guerilla fighter. I have been looking for a copy of this movie for a long long time now. If anybody sees one please let me know. Another movie I enjoyed when I was a kid was a movie called "Guerillas in Pink Lace". It was about an American soldier in the Philippines who masquerades a priest with a group of beautiful american nurses. The one scene I remember the most was the scene at the end where they find out he's not a priest after all and all these beautiful nurses gang rape him, and I was like gad, what a lucky guy!
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Post by arm61uic on Jun 14, 2007 23:29:46 GMT -5
The Doug McClure, Ricardo Montalban, Katherine Ross, et al, film that you all refer to is indeed entitled, "Longest Hundred Miles." It is a favorite film of my father, who is a PS (12th Med. Rgmt.) and a Death March survivor. It was released for TV in 1966 or 1967.
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Post by VeeVee on Jun 15, 2007 22:04:10 GMT -5
I can't find it anywhere even in VHS format
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Post by yamota on Oct 24, 2007 14:21:45 GMT -5
I heard from scuttlbutt that they do show this movie on late night TV once in a while. If anyone sees it on the TV schedule please make sure to inform the rest of so we can tape it. I know it's a long shot, but there's no other recourse, unless of course they release it on DVD which is unlikely.
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Post by fox on Dec 19, 2007 8:38:04 GMT -5
United Movietone Pictures has three documentaries entitled' Angels Of Bataan' Siege of Corregidor' Clark Air Base available at ebay.com There are also other DVD's all filmed in the Philippines. I got them all. I heard they are currently filming their latest film entitled 'Deathmarch' . The first half of the story is the Battle Of Bataan followed by the 9 day Deathmarch from Mariveles to San Fernando Railway Station. From there to Camp O'Donnell and Camp Cabanatuan. I hope that the Producers will submit it to the film festivals here in the States , or some cable TV network will offer to buy it so that we don't have to wait forever to see it. So if anyone out there is in the market check it out. Thanks to Director Rainer Loeser, the men on Bataan will never forgotten. Keep up the good work.
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Post by fox on Dec 25, 2007 8:47:58 GMT -5
I was invited by Rainer Loeser, the Director of Deathmarch along to the set to watch them shoot some of the Re-enactments of the Bataan Deathmarch. It showed how American and Filipino troops were slaughter by the enemy for not being able to keep up with the March. Soldiers were shot, bayoneted, beheaded, buried alive,run over by enemy tanks. Children were shot for showing the V sign for victory. And there's more to come in the zero wards as POW's were put there to die. When this film is released, the Bataan Deathmarch will live on for generations to come. It's a story that needs to be told.
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Post by VeeVee on Dec 25, 2007 20:45:44 GMT -5
Thanks fox. Can't wait for the finished product. Please give us an update when the DVD is out on ebay. I hope it gets picked up by PBS channel or the history channel.
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Post by indiosbravos on May 12, 2008 19:43:16 GMT -5
An American Guerilla in the Philippines- I've seen this movie two weeks after signing up to this forum. So that was Berting Labra.
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Post by geo on Jul 17, 2008 11:18:57 GMT -5
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Post by legionnaire on Jul 17, 2008 15:52:00 GMT -5
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Post by 26th on Jul 17, 2008 16:25:55 GMT -5
Boy
Last time I saw that was 41 years ago. Ricardo Montublan??
Rudy
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Post by legionnaire on Jul 17, 2008 16:45:55 GMT -5
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Post by Mari on Dec 15, 2008 0:44:31 GMT -5
My grandson is researching his great-grandfather, Miguel Alcantara, who was also in the 12th Med. Rgmt. Do you know of anywhere with information specific to them? Did your father know him? Sadly, he has passed on and we are having trouble finding out about his life. The Doug McClure, Ricardo Montalban, Katherine Ross, et al, film that you all refer to is indeed entitled, "Longest Hundred Miles." It is a favorite film of my father, who is a PS (12th Med. Rgmt.) and a Death March survivor. It was released for TV in 1966 or 1967.
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Post by legionnaire on Dec 15, 2008 1:46:31 GMT -5
Hi Mari, You can post your question and info on the Philippine Scouts Heritage Society forum, and they will be the best source to possible give you any info on PS Alcantara . You have to sign up to be able to post. link below: www.philippine-scouts.org/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl
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Post by galahad143 on Aug 5, 2009 2:40:21 GMT -5
Anybody recall a Fernando Poe movie called Agila? This classic was about the family Agila throughout the years, from the Moro wars to the early 80s. I have been looking for a DVD version of this movie to no avail.
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