an education this movie is. It’s essentially, MacArthur’s Greatest Hits. We go from the General receiving a presidential order to leave the Philippines where he was in charge of a small unit defending a very important line against the Japanese. Angered by his superior’s naïve grasp of the situation, he nonetheless gets on a PT Boat (Patrol Torpedo if you are as curious as I was) with his family and, at great risk, travels to Australia, dodging spiked mines, where he is expected to organise the American forces in preparation for a Japanese invasion. He hears his forces have surrendered in the Philippines which led to the horrific and infamous Bataan Death March