Suicide Battalion

Suicide Battalion (1958)

To hell with orders... we ATTACK!

Second World War drama, set in the Philippines about a group of men recruited for the dangerous mission of destroying an American base to keep strategic papers out of enemy hands when Japanese forces invade. The men spend their last hours drowning their sorrows in a bar, but time is running out. American International Pictures originally distributed this film as a double feature with "Jet Attack".

Date of release
1958-02-28
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (3)
Runtime
1h 19m
Genres
War
Director
Edward L. Cahn

Casting

Interesting facts

Suicide Battalion is a 1958 World War II film directed by Edward L. Cahn and starring Mike Connors, John Ashley, Russ Bender, Bing Russell, Walter Maslow and Robert Tetrick. In 1968, it was remade for television by Larry Buchanan as Hell Raiders, which was the film's original working title.

Production

The film was an original story by Lou Rusoff reportedly based on the capture of General William Dean during the Korean War. It was announced for production in November 1955 as Hell Raiders. It was to star Lance Fuller who had made Apache Woman for producer Alex Gordon and had signed a ten-film deal with AIP (or ARC as it was then known), to make two films a year for five years. Filming was to begin January 1956.

Filming was pushed back and Fuller did not make the movie. In April 1956 AIP announced that Richard Denning would star and that Edward L. Cahn would direct. Denning ended up not appearing in the film either, which was not made until late 1957.

Filming began on 12 November 1957. Star John Ashley was doing a six-month stint in the army at the time. The producers got him an early release to make the movie. Ashley later had a noted association with filmmaking in the Philippines.

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