SUICIDE BATTALION (1958)
A handful of American soldiers fighting in the Pacific volunteer to take on a dangerous mission to blow up a Japanese base of operations...
American International Pictures more known to us for 1950's sci fi movies made quite a few war films.
When the names Arkoff and Nicholson appear on the opening credits you know that this will be low budget. It is....very.
Most of any action sequences are archive newsreel footage and the rest is studio based. The film does get off the ground okay for the first reel but then the group are given 72 hours r&r before the mission and the movie takes a dive in to soap opera land of love triangle and getting a GI married.
After dragging a woman reporter through the jungle, the film picks up a bit for the last reel but it is too late to save the movie. This is real B movie stuff and I went in expecting that but the film drags bad and is nothing like their sci fi gems.