Lost Battalion (1960 film)

Lost Battalion (aka Escape to Paradise) is a 1960 black-and-white Filipino romantic war film produced and directed by Eddie Romero, and co-produced by Romero and Kane W. Lynn. Set during World War II, it stars Leopoldo Salcedo, Johnny Monteiro and Diane Jergens. It was later released in the US by American International Pictures as Lost Battalion, on a double feature with Guns of the Black Witch in 1962. The film's ad line read "200 Men and One Girl Trapped in a Ring of Steel!"

Plot
In the Philippines during World War II, an American major tries to move a guerrilla unit and group of American refugees to the coast, so they can be rescued by submarine, all the while trying to avoid capture by the occupying Japanese forces. Leopoldo Salcedo played the handsome Filipino guerrilla leader who is in love with a stranded American girl Kathy (Diane Jergens).

Cast

 * Leopoldo Salcedo as Ramon de Cortes
 * Diane Jergens as Kathy Hughes
 * Johnny Monteiro as Bruno
 * Jennings Sturgeon as Mr. Hughes
 * Joe Sison as Pepe
 * Joe Dennis as Col. Landis
 * Bruce Baxter as Jimmy
 * Rosi Acosta as Pepe's Wife
 * Joe Dennis as Landis