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| name = Lost Battalion

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| caption = Film poster

| director = Eddie Romero

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| cinematography = Felipe Sacdalanhttp://www.manunuri.com/felipe_sacdalan_unflagging_proponent_of_the_invisible_camera

| editing = Joven Calub

| music = Les Baxter

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| runtime = 83 minutes

| country = Philippines

| language = Filipino
English

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'Lost Battalion' (aka 'Escape to Paradise') is a 1960 black-and-white Filipino war film and love story produced and directed by Eddie Romero, and co-produced by Romero and Kane W. Lynn.Ray, Fred Olen (1991). "The New Poverty Row". McFarland and Co. Inc. . Page 64 Set during World War II, it stars Leopoldo Salcedo, Johnny Monteiro and Diane Jergens. It was later released in the US by American International Pictures as 'Lost Battalion', on a double feature with 'Guns of the Black Witch' in 1962. The film's ad line read "200 Men and One Girl Trapped in a Ring of Steel!"Ray, Fred Olen (1991). "The New Poverty Row". McFarland and Co. Inc. . Page 64

Plot



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).

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Cast



*Leopoldo Salcedo as Ramon

*Diane Jergens as Kathy

*Jennings Sturgeon as Hughes

*Joe Sison as Pepe

*Bruce Baxter as Jimmy

*Rosi Acosta as Pepe's Wife

*Joe Dennis as Landis

Notes



The Philippines were overrun by the Japanese during WW2, and had to resort to guerilla fighting until General Douglas 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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