Huk! (1956)

Set in the Philippines circa 1951, a plantation owner (George Montgomery) returns to his homeland to find that the natives known as Huks have begun an insurrection and are pillaging local plantations. Based on the novel by Stirling Silliphant and directed by John Barnwell (SURRENDER HELL). Yikes! What a potboiler and not in a good sense. The film may as well have been bankrolled by the Philippine government, it's so "patriotic". The only authentic thing about it is the locations (after all, it was filmed in the Philippines) and outside of its four American leads, the cast is entirely comprised of Filipinos. Everything else from the acting, directing, writing, music etc. is mundane. Montgomery would return to the Philippines in the early 1960s and make three more films there as an actor/director/writer. With Mona Freeman, John Baer and James Bell.