Ambush Bay

Ambush Bay (1966)

Their top secret mission paved the way for the man who said "I Shall Return!"

A Marine unit on a Japanese-held island in the Philippines tries to hook up with local Filipino guerrillas.

Date of release
1966-05-10
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 49m
Genres
War, Drama
Director
Ron Winston

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Philippines

Ambush Bay is a 1966 American war film directed by Ron Winston and starring Hugh O'Brian, Mickey Rooney and James Mitchum. It was filmed on location in the Philippines.

Production

Television director Ron Winston made his feature debut with the film. It was also the motion picture debuts of then 19‑year‑old Tisa Chang and Peter Masterson. Marine Lieutenant Colonel Clement J. Stadler also acted as a technical advisor for All the Young Men, Hell to Eternity, The Outsider, and The Lieutenant television series.

A novelisation of the film's screenplay was written by Jack Pearl.

During filming, Mickey Rooney became ill with a fever. While he was hospitalized in Manila, his estranged wife Barbara Ann Thomason was killed by Milos Milos, her lover, in a murder-suicide.

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