Kristine Miller

Arthur Franz

Ross Ford

Tommy Noonan

Gene Reynolds

Richard Jaeckel

Mickey Knox

Harry Lauter

William Murphy

G. Pat Collins

Robertson White

William Bowers

Joseph M. Newman

Francis Swann

Mack Stengler

Bert Jordan

Lewis J. Rachmil

Mel Berns

Jungle Patrol

Frank Seltzer Productions

United States of America

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This starts out with a degree of promise. A group of war-weary soldiers are facing overwhelming odds as they try to defend a remote island airstrip from the invading Japanese. "Mace" (Arthur Franz) commands this group of brave men but sadly, for the plot, he soon becomes romantically embroiled with a visiting forces entertainer "Jean" (Kristine Miller) and at this point the score turns all violin-led and the plot deteriorates into a rather soppy melodrama that rather negates the courageous story that we started with. It was obviously made for domestic consumption to bolster post-war audiences, but somehow the lightweight cast and rather wordy dialogue drown out what action scenes there actually are, leaving us with some interesting audio descriptions of the dogfighting overhead - and they sound authentic enough - but with little else. It's decently enough produced, but is little better than a standard afternoon B-feature that passes the time all too slowly.

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