I Was an American Spy (1951)

Directors

Lesley Selander

Cast

Ann Dvorak, Gene Evans, Douglas Kennedy, Richard Loo

The story

Claire Phillips, an American-born Filipina living in Manila, is working as a cafe entertainer on the eve of the attack on Pearl Harbor. She marries American soldier John Phillips and witnesses the Japanese invasion of the Philippines during the Battle of Bataan. Her husband is captured, and she watches as he is killed by machine-gun fire during the Bataan Death March after he defies the order of a cruel Japanese soldier not to drink from typhoid-contaminated water.

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