Huk! | |
Director: | John Barnwell |
Producer: | Collier Young |
Screenplay: | Stirling Silliphant |
Starring: | George Montgomery Mona Freeman John Baer James Bell Teddy Benavides Mario Barri |
Music: | Albert Glasser |
Cinematography: | William E. Snyder |
Editing: | Helene Turner |
Studio: | Pan Pacific Productions |
Distributor: | United Artists |
Runtime: | 84 minutes |
Country: | United States |
Language: | English |
Budget: | $350,000[1] |
Huk! is a 1956 American adventure film directed by John Barnwell and written by Stirling Silliphant and filmed in the Philippines. The film stars George Montgomery, Mona Freeman, John Baer, James Bell, Teddy Benavides and Mario Barri. The film was released on August 9, 1956, by United Artists.[2] [3] It is the first Philippine film of George Montgomery who would return to the islands in the 1960s to produce, direct, co-write and star in a number of Philippine films.
Greg Dickson is an American born and raised in the Philippines. He returns to sell his deceased father's plantation after World War II and Philippine independence. His plantation ends up in the middle of the Huk Rebellion, with Greg and plantation workers fighting the rebel guerillas.