MacArthur (1977) Suite - Jerry Goldsmith 

the Philippines, for me too.

He made his family proud.

Bonded, I totally agree, the movie MacArthur is way too far underrated, so was Midway also underrated, Tora,Tora,Tora was also underrated. Patton & that POS Catch 22 were way too far overrated. If War movies were made about World War II involving the Navy,Marine Corps and the War in the Pacific were always underrated, while the war movies about the war against Germany are always overrated. 2 of my uncles were in the Navy in the Pacific, 2 second cousins in the Marines in the Pacific and my father in law in the Army in the Philippines.

Truly, it's not a patch on Patton; I don't think it even got a theatrical release in the UK, but Peck was well cast. Agree though, looks too much like a made for TV movie in places.

I like Patton better more fast paced music and film

you can say underrated movie but never the Master pieces of Master Goldsmith was underrated they are the most prominent emotional and theoretical....

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Very unlike one, but one that really helps set up an avg Wayne flick, check his opening credits guitar solo in Rio Lobo.

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Douglas MacArthur loved the Philippines & the people of the Philippines which is my second country and I’m very homesick for the Philippines. My late wife of 31 years was from there. My late father in law served in the U.S.Army in World War II in the Philippines, after the war he went to work for our Embassy in Manila till her served & worked fro both the U.S.& Philippines a total of 30 years.

Christopher O'Rourke Agreed, too bad he was such a leftist.

wingitprod That shouldn't even matter if he was leftist or not. He was a great actor and nice guy from what I've heard. Let's just leave it at that.

Hard to leave it at that. They've destroyed everything Patton and macarthur fought for and stood for. Their statues, too, will be gone soon. Racists, ya know.

Don't forget Big Country awesome movie 👏

My favorite movie of his was Spellbound with Ingrid Bergman.

I would add John "Black Jack" Pershing, Dwight Eisenhower, Chester Nimitz, and George C Marshall. Patton never commanded at a theater or above level and MacArthur's brilliant campaigns in New Guinea Korea at Inchon and the Phillippines in 1944 are somewhat nullified by disastrous ones in the Phillippines in 1942, Peleliu in 1944 and the Chosen Reservoir December 1950 in Korea. Pershing transformed the US Army from a frontier force to a modern war machine almost overnight and it was his commitment to returning the western front to mobile warfare, in the face of British and French resistance, that had US-led allied armies on the verge of invading Germany in 1919 and forced the Kaiser to quit. Dwight Eisenhower's career speaks for itself. Nimitz took a broken Pacific Fleet across the Pacific and seized islands that would become staging areas for further operations against Japan. His Marines took islands that would base B-29s that rained ruin down on Japan and would force her surrender with the A-Bomb attacks. George Marshall put together the arsenal of democracy and built the war-winning US Army that marched into Paris, Rome, Manila, and Tokyo.

blkyank1 except Peleliu was Nimitz’s operation though. Roosevelt gave it to him to select and he chose it on his own not by MacArthur’s force. He held his own command.

@@TheLAGopher I would add Omar Bradley and Frank Merill to that list to

the thought of him kicking out the bumpkin stooge haberdashery salesman and all of the late FDR's red fellow travelers in State, give me thrill up leg even now. If he won in '48, there would have been no Korean War and likely he wins 2d term and he would have gone after Ho Chi Minh - with a winning plan. He would have backed Chiang over Mao and that would have been something. I think Asia would have seen much less slaughter and would be a more stable place now. Too bad, but it is hard to beat these lying professional pols and their corrupt communist/globalist machines.

I feel your forget his lack of vision. In both the Philippines and Korea, he underestimated the enemy, and ignored inteligence that lead to his defeats. The man was not the American Cesar, he was the 20th Century George McClellan. A flawed officer who often let victory slip through his grasp due to poor tactics and planing.

Funny thing is MacArthur thought leftist concepts like trade unions,giving women the vote, letting Japan adopt a pacifist constitution, and redistributing the land from the wealthy to poor farmers, were goodfor Japan.MacArthur basically reformed Japanese society along New Deal lines.

blkyank1 what's funnier though is, they all still worked

William Shatners father owned a tie store

Universal Studios...Who knows? maybe!

I don't think the session tapes exist anymore. This was a rerecording for the soundtrack release.

Yes, Nimitz would have called it Formosa.

If you look at a map of the Philippines, you'll see it is a jumble of many islands, with straits between many of them, particularly around Leyte. The Japanese Navy could use those straits, and did, to slip up on Taffy 3, the last small flotilla protecting MacArthur's beachhead after Halsey chased after a Japanese fleet that acted as bait. The surrounding islands screened the Japanese approach as they slipped down one of the straits, screened by the surrounding islands. The sea area surrounding Formosa offered the Navy waters that were not as "cluttered," providing far less cover for Japanese naval units to try what they did at Leyte.

@@TheOiler1989 Formosa was also much more in line with the American way of global warfare which was to go straight at the heart of the enemy. The ultimate objective of the Pacific War was to get at the industrial heart of Japan on the Kanto plain around Tokyo the same way the US saw the Ruhr Valley as the heart of Germany when it pushed for a cross channel invasion of France.

MacArthur was certainly right about Chinese ambitions and that it would be far easier to stop them in 1950 when they were still poor and weak than it will be later (maybe in 2050). But four years after WW2 nobody in DC wanted to hear that. And here we are today.

@@simonsez464 thank you. Do you feel mcarthur should have been fired by President Truman or was President Truman wrong in letting mcarthur go. President Truman felt he force to fire mcarthur

@@donaldmcauliffe7653 After being commander of the SW Pacific for 4 years and then SCAP in Japan for 4 years he got so used to being the final word, surrounded by ego-stroking sycophants, and then buttressed by the success at Inchon that everyone in Washington was convinced would fail, MacArthur had a god complex. And he had the same contempt for Truman that Truman had for him. Politically Truman was right. MacArthur was undermining him. Strategically, militarily, I'm not sure it was the right decision. Ridgeway was a great tactical leader but not the brilliant strategic thinker MacArthur was. The war probably would have ended in victory rather than stalemate if Truman had swallowed his pride, listened to MacArthur, and given him what he needed to win instead of always limiting his options to appease to Soviets.

@@simonsez464 l believe you are correct about mcarthur he was right but. President Truman was his boss

Big mistake. Urged by FDR 's leftover reds in state Dept. Truman was never expected to be president; had been a Kansas City party hack and haberdashery salesman, and couldn't carry macarthur's jock...wrong man at wrong time, which happens a lot in our history. And Patton should've been back in the US raising hell over Korean sell-out...as a senator from CA.

Seriously, Bradley and Eisenhower? Bradley did great job at "Cobra" (plan and execution), thats all. Ike, well he didnt know how to command. The so called "broad front strategy" was just a rigid doctrine.

Ike wasn't appointed for his strategic ability. He was appointed by FDR because he could get alongwith the British and could manage personalities like Patton and Monty who drove everybody else,nuts.If Patton had any statesmanship abilities, he would have been leading the D-Day invasionand possibly could have been Supreme Allied Commander. FDR also wouldn't give the job of Supreme Allied Commander to Marshall, who wanted the job,because FDR wanted him stateside running the US Army.

@@TheLAGopher Totally agree with you.