Raoul Walsh was an American actor and film director. He was born in 1887 and died in 1980. He was originally an actor, but then became a director specialising in tough action stories, he made a number of outstanding films, including 'The Thief of Bagdad' in 1924, 'The Roaring Twenties' in 1939, ' Objective Burma' in 1945, ' White Heat' in 1949, and 'The Tall Men' in 1955. Research Raoul Walsh
Objective Burma is a Second World War action drama starring Errol Flynn, James Brown, William Prince, George Tobias and Henry Hull in a story about a group of American soldiers parachuting into Japanese-occupied Burma during the Second World War with a mission to destroy a radar station. Objective Burma was directed by Raoul Walsh in 1945. Objective Burma is notorious on two counts: firstly it is the first film to depict a character pulling a grenadepin out with his teeth - something no soldier ever does - and secondly in one scene one of the 'dead' Japanese soldiers moves his foot from having the heel pointing outwards to a more comfortable position pointing inwards. Research Objective Burma
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