This was on Turner Classic Movies. The narrator said that, while the film was being made, the scriptwriter had to keep updating events every day since that was when MacArthur was making his drive back to liberate the Philippines, and things were changing all the time.
The movie opens with a bunch of prisoners being rescued from a Japanese Prisoner-of-War camp.
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Some of the people in the film had actually been in the camp.
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A woman making a pro-Japanese broadcast (but she's not Tokyo Rose.) The events are taking place before the Americans were driven out of the Philippines.
The John Wayne character gets put in charge of organizing guerrilla resistance. MacArthur had been ordered to go to Australia at the time.
The Japanese guy talks about how Japan plans to welcome the Philippines back into the “fold” and how they will be kind to the Philippine people as long as they behave.
The Japanese hang the principal of a school who refuses to haul down the American flag.
The Bataan Death March is shown.
Then the movie shows the guerrilla activities.
The Japanese are holding a ceremony in a village which the some of the guerrillas came from.
The Japanese speaker talks about the Greater East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere.
The American troops land at Leyte. It's up to John Wayne and the guerrillas to stop Japanese reinforcements from getting through.
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