Jan 7 movie: So Proudly We Hail! Another wartime film from Claudette Colbert. In this one she stars as a nurse in Bataan. According to a title card the movie, made during the war, was inspired by the true story of eight nurses who managed to get out of Bataan before the whole region fell. As you might imagine, the movie is pretty dark. They tried to make it inspiring but when the eight nurses get out, they leave behind everyone else in the movie. They didn't even know about that whole "Bataan Death March" thing when they made the movie, but the knowledge of history made the story even more grim.
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