The camouflage uniforms worn by the American raiders are not WWII military camouflage uniforms.
They are wearing commercial duck hunter suits that were sold in the USA after World War II.
They are based on wartime USMC camouflage uniforms and bear a passing resemblance.
The M1 Carbines were with post War modifications, they had bayonet lugs.
The field gear, packs, canteen covers, pistol belts, etc.
were of mid 1950's vintage.
The color was a dark green, not used during World War II.
The machine gun in the final battle was a "composite" made to have some features of the Hotchkiss, however the receiver was an American Browning 1917.
In the final battle, the closeups of the machine gun showed U.
30-06 ceremonial blanks, with red wads in the cartridge, in the ammunition belt while firing.
When the gun was at rest, ball rounds, with projectiles in the cases, were in the belt.
I saw this movie when it came out.Sure it's flawed and riddled with clichés, but there's really only one reason to watch it and that's Mickey Rooney and his flippant comments when he gets wounded and confronted by the Japanese.
So many rookie mistakes.Mitchum is the key man, the last minute radio man who is told to protect his radio at all times.
Ambush Bay is not a bad little WW2 "B"movie auctioneer. It blends your standard Pacific theatre war movie, with the old horror trope of our heroes being knocked off one by one letting us wonder who might survive if any at all.
The setting is an unnamed, Japanese-held island in the Philippines during the second World War. A marine unit arrives to carry out a mission; they will make contact with a Japanese double agent and ultimately work to relay critical information.
RELEASED IN 1966 and directed by Ron Winston, "Ambush Bay" stars Hugh O'Brian, James Mitchum and Mickey Rooney as Marines on a covert mission on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines where they must hook up with local Filipino guerrillas in preparation for MacArthur's invasion.The first 45 minutes or so are typical jungle warfare from the perspective of 60's filmmakers, not bad, but kinda meh.
For standards of movie making decades later, the movie has its flaws but if you look past that, the plot is good and so is the acting. I enjoyed the nostalgia look at war movies where it was made close / somewhat close to when it happened and present day mannerisms, colloquial expressions and revisionist haven't taken too much of a overriding theme.
Excellent majestic, dramatic location filming in the Philippines is wasted on 'Ambush Bay's' cliché crippled script and on its other, ginsu production values (e.g.
The criteria presented regarding this movie is correct, except for the comment on the US M4 Sherman. In all wars, including the Second World War, forces from all sides wind up capturing enemy equipment.
