4/10
The Battle of the Rail
1 January 2021
Most Americans think they could see off the bad guys with one hand behind their back and director/star George Montgomery does effectively that by toppling Japs like ninepins one-handed in this quickie war picture set in the Philippines in 1941, enhanced by location filming in colour in the lush green countryside around Manilla, and by the use of a couple of locomotives for the action scenes.

Along the way Montgomery encounters not one but two lush young Filipino ladies, one playing a local 'actress' called (I kid you not) Lolita, and the other a ferocious female freedom fighter at the head of a band of guerrillas. Refreshingly it's a big burly American rather than one of the girls who injures his ankle during their adventures.
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