A few years ago I was watching Turner Classics and I fell asleep. When I woke up a movie was on and I watched the rest of it but for the life of me I can’t remember the name or who was in it. It was set in the South Pacific during WW2 I think, and it’s about these women soldiers who live together in an underground barracks. The scenes are mostly of them interacting in the barracks. At the very end they were all captured by the Japanese and the final scene is of them walking up the stairs out of the barracks to surrender. It stayed with me because you don’t see many movies where “the good guys” don’t win.
I’m positive that somebody will know what film this is.
The only movie I can name where women are interned by the Japanese during WWII is Three Came Home (1950) with Claudette Colbert.
OTOH, I do remember seeing many years ago a movie where several women (American, IIRC) are hiding out from the Japanese. They’re cornered at one point, and one of the women sacrifices herself to blow up the soldiers with a concealed hand grenade. Unfortunately, I do not remember the title.
That would be So Proudly We Hail from 1943. Claudette Colbert as the nurse commander, Paulette Goddard and Veronica Lake as young nurses who suddenly get thrust into the Battle of Bataan.
It’s memorable for the above-mentioned scene with the hand grenade, and also because a pre-Superman George Reeves is the love interest for Colbert.
But the good guys (or girls) were evacuated rather than being captured.
