Merrill's Marauders

Item

Title

Merrill's Marauders

Description

Merrill's Marauders is a 1962 Cinemascope war film directed and co-written by Samuel Fuller based on the exploits of the long range penetration jungle warfare unit of the same name in the Burma Campaign, culminating in the Siege of Myitkyina.

The source is the non-fiction book The Marauders, written by Charlton Ogburn Jr., a communications officer who served with Merrill's Marauders. Filmed on location in the Philippines, the economical historical epic film stars Jeff Chandler (in his final role) as Frank Merrill and several actors from the Warner Brothers Television stock company who were then the lead actors in American television shows.(Wikipedia)

Shelf Location: I.2

Condition: minor mold

Date

1962

Identifier

2010.647.1-.3

Subject

Commercial Print

Item sets

KSC Film Archive

Keene State Film Studies