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Asia jungle war move, airplane fuselage headquarters

I Don't Know the Name... (unsolved movies)

This was a war movie, probably black/white, I believe WWII , set in the jungle in Asia.

The main characters were a US Army platoon that hiked through the jungle to find an Asian commander (possibly a Chinese warlord?). They were trying to make some kind of deal with the commander, maybe join forces, obtain supplies, rescue hostages or some similar goal. When they found him, the commander’s headquarters was in the fuselage of a wrecked plane in the jungle. Probably a C47. If I remember right, the negotiations did not go well.

I can’t remember any more than that.

Thanks!

India fort movie

Solved!

English language, can’t remember if it’s color or b&w.

There was a fort in India (during British Raj), and anticipating an attack everyone holed up in the infirmary. It was pretty gloomy because they weren’t expecting to survive the coming attack.

Also, in another scene possibly from the same movie, a detachment arrived at the fort and found that everyone was either missing or had been killed and I think there were bodies laying all over the parade ground and on the walls with no one left alive. Possibly this detachment was the men in the infirmary later. I just can’t remember.

Not sure if the same movie, but I think maybe at one point in an attempt to get civilians out they tried to get everyone to a nearby river to get on some boats.

I think I saw this on TCM during one of those theme days where they show 4 or 5 movies on the same subject, and there were a bunch of movies in a row about British India. So I might be confusing multiple movies, but I can’t find any movie with any of those 3 scenes and I know they were all British Raj subject movies.

I know it is NOT:
Soldiers Three
Beau Geste (some similar scenes but not British or India)
Gunga Din
The Man Who Would Be King
King of the Khyber Rifles
The Lives Of A Bengal Lancer
North West Frontier
Bhowani Junction

I have watched all those movies again and I know it isn’t any of those.

Thanks in advance.