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| Directed by | Eddie Romero |
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| Cinematography | Felipe Sacdalan[2] |
| Edited by | Joven Calub |
| Music by | Les Baxter |
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Running time | 83 minutes |
| Country | Philippines |
| Languages | Filipino English |
Lost Battalion (akaEscape to Paradise) is a 1960 black-and-whiteFilipinoromanticwar film produced and directed byEddie Romero, and co-produced by Romero andKane W. Lynn.[3] Set duringWorld War II, it starsLeopoldo Salcedo,Johnny Monteiro andDiane Jergens. It was later released in the US byAmerican International Pictures asLost Battalion, on adouble feature withGuns of the Black Witch in 1962. The film's ad line read "200 Men and One Girl Trapped in a Ring of Steel!"[4]
In the Philippines during World War II, an American major tries to move a guerrilla unit and group of American refugees to the coast, so they can be rescued by submarine, all the while trying to avoid capture by the occupying Japanese forces. Leopoldo Salcedo played the handsome Filipino guerrilla leader who is in love with a stranded American girl Kathy (Diane Jergens).
The Philippines were overrun by the Japanese during WW2, and had to resort to guerilla fighting until GeneralDouglas MacArthur made his famous return. The Philippines was liberated in 1945.
This movie also features the main character, Ramon, with Mr. Hughes and his daughter Katherine, both Americans, hiding in a cave and discovered by a primitive band of locals. These are presumed to be the Aeta people, thought to be the original people of the islands. The Aeta are smaller and darker than most Filipinos, and possess dark curly hair that made the Spanish, when they invaded in the 1500s, label them as "negritos".
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