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  1. Too Late the Hero is a 1970 American war film directed by Robert Aldrich and starring Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, Ian Bannen and Harry Andrews .

  2. Jun 26, 1970 · Too Late the Hero: Directed by Robert Aldrich. With Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson, Ian Bannen, Harry Andrews. A reluctant hero, American Lieutenant Sam Lawson, is seconded to a motley British unit tasked with destroying a Japanese radio on a Philippine island.

    • (4K)
    • Action, Drama, War
    • Robert Aldrich
    • 1970-06-26
  3. During World War II, Allied forces interpreter Sam Lawson (Cliff Robertson) is called on by his superior for a dangerous mission. Up to this point, Lawson has managed to completely avoid combat ...

    • (14)
    • Robert Aldrich
    • PG
    • Michael Caine
  4. Too Late the Hero (1970) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.

  5. Summaries. A reluctant hero, American Lieutenant Sam Lawson, is seconded to a motley British unit tasked with destroying a Japanese radio on a Philippine island. A World War II movie set on a Pacific island. Japanese and Allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines ...

  6. Mar 28, 2019 · In Too Late the Hero (1970), the last of Aldrich’s informal war trilogy, these themes collide and cross-cancel, leaving the viewer lost and bloody in a nihilistic no-man’s-land much like the setting that opens and closes the film. In his 1955 essay “Notes on a Revolution,” critic and soon-to-be New Wave filmmaker Jacques Rivette ...

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  8. A WWII film set on a Pacific island. Japanese and allied forces occupy different parts of the island. When a group of British soldiers are sent on a mission behind enemy lines, things don't go exactly to plan. This film differs in that some of the 'heroes' are very reluctant, but they come good when they are pursued by the Japanese who are determined to prevent them returning to base.