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Kuroki Questions Maximo

RKO Radio Pictures
1945
black & white
95 min.

Directed by Edward Dmytryk

Produced by Robert Fellows and Theron Warth

Written by Ben Barzman, William Gordon, Richard H. Landau, and Aeneas MacKenzie

Cinematography by Nicholas Musuraca

Film editing by Marston Fay

Music by Roy Webb

Sound by Earl A. Wolcott

Costume design by Renie

Art direction by Ralph Berger and Albert S. D'Agostino

Set decoration by Charles Nields and Darrell Silvera

Special effects by Vernon L. Walker

Also known as The Invisible Army

Colonel Kuroki (Philip Ahn), the Japanese intelligence chief, questions Maximo Cuenca (Ducky Louie) about the American colonel's insignia found in Maximo's possession after the attack on the Japanese-staged Philippine "independence" ceremony. Maximo refuses to tell where he got it and gets a beating from Kuroki.

Cast

  John Wayne Col. Joseph Madden
  Anthony Quinn Capt. Andres Bonifacio
  Beulah Bondi Bertha Barnes
  Fely Franquelli Dalisay Delgado
  Richard Loo Major Hasko
  Lawrence Tierney Lt. Commander Waite
  Philip Ahn Colonel Kuroki
  Ducky Louie Maximo Cuenca
  Leonard Strong General Homma
  Paul Fix Spindle Jackson
  Vladimir Sokoloff Buenaventura J. Bello
  Abner Biberman Japanese captain
  Alex Havier Sergeant Biernesa
  John Miljan "Skinny" (general)
  Harold Fong Prince Ito
  Benson Fong Officer making broadcast
  Erville Alderson  
  Angel Cruz  
  Edmund Glover  
  Kenneth MacDonald Major McKinely
  Ray Teal Lt. Colonel Roberts
  Bill Williams