Were the films main characters actual historical figures?
A. The rescue operation was led by Lt. Colonel Henry Mucci and Captain Bob Prince, both real people. And as played by Benjamin Bratt and James Franco, the characters look and act a lot like the real Mucci and Prince. But Major Daniel Gibson (Joseph Fiennes) the key figure in the camp, is mostly fictional. His character, though, helps embody the most noble characteristics of the prisoners (he fights to get medicine smuggled into the camp) as well as the most despairing (he’s succumbing himself to malaria, a huge killer among camp inmates.) Whether or not he’ll survive is one of the key subplots of the film. Q. What about Margaret Utinsky. Was she real? A. Yes. Margaret Utinsky’s husband had died serving in the Philippines, and though widowed, she elected to stay there. Passing herself off as Lithuanian, she helped organize an underground, which smuggled medicine to the prisoners, and spied on the Japanese. But pictures show that she wasn’t quite as beautiful (nor so tall) as the statues
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