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    Operation Bottleneck (1961)

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    Sardonic but courageous Lieutenant Rulan Voss (Ron Foster) leads a small task force of GIs who parachute into the jungles of Burma behind Japanese lines on a daring mission to destroy a strategic roadway.

    Five pretty girls – liberated from the Japanese and somehow still looking pristinely neat and tidy after their presumably arduous trek – are providentially provided with soldiering garb and armaments so they can be trained as substitutes for the men lost in rescuing the Lieutenant.

    At one point it looks as if everybody might burst into song, musical comedy style, as the young ladies blaze away at target practice while the enemy is conveniently elsewhere.

    Earlier, Japanese patrols had quickly detected the parachute drop and were even more alert in pinpointing the radio communication of a British martyr (Ben Wright).

    Naive and amateurish, this may not be the worst war movie ever made, but it’s definitely up there, complete with bad acting, a ridiculous storyline, hokey jungle set, stock footage, and terrible production values.

    Operation Bottleneck was apparently based on scriptwriter Orville H Hampton’s personal experiences in World War II.

    Lt. Rulan H. Voss
    Ron Foster
    Ari
    Miiko Taka
    Cpl. Lester ‘Merc’ Davenport
    Norman Alden
    Sgt. Marty Regan
    John Clarke
    Mander
    Ben Wright
    Matsu
    Dale Ishimoto
    Atsi (Ari’s Mother)
    Jane Chang
    LoLo
    Lemoi Chu
    Tai
    Tiko Ling
    Sawbu
    Jin Jin Mai
    Danue
    June Kawai
    Benjy
    Ben Bennett
    Tom
    Marc Eden
    Koju
    George Yoshinaga

    Director
    Edward L. Cahn

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