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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543039396
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 StereoFrenchOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 MonoEnglishSubtitledSpanishDubbedDolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
MPN: D2003939D
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 21, 2002
Running Time: 94 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1956
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
A callow Southern aristocrat (the charismatically challenged Robert Wagner) acquires character and democratic values in the crucible of combat, via a laboriously complicated script that begins in the middle of things and then loads on explanatory flashbacks like a forklift. On "an island in the Pacific, 1945," the scion of a Tennessee cotton dynasty becomes not only comrade-in-arms but also friend to the sharecroppers he once scorned. Although the jungle island is crawling with Japanese snipers and patrols, the greatest danger comes from U.S. officers who are variously incompetent, "yellow," or--in the case of company commander Broderick Crawford--certifiably insane. Screenwriter Harry Brown wrote the World War II classic A Walk in the Sun 11 years earlier, but the characters here are a dull lot and the dialogue terminally flatfooted. However, director Richard Fleischer blocks his action scenes to take full advantage of the CinemaScope format. --Richard T. Jameson
Description:
Robert Wagner, Terry Moore, Broderick Crawford and Buddy Ebsen star in this absorbing drama about a young, self-centered recruit who comes of age during WWII. Sam Gifford (Wagner) is a successful cotton planter who treats his sharecroppers as if they were little more than farm machinery. But during combat in the Pacific, as he sees "quality" people crack, endures life under a sadistic officer (Crawford), and learns true friendship, from a "cropper" (Ebsen), Gifford slowly discovers there's more to a person than social class and good breeding.
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The movie was great and the good people who sent it were right on the ball. I thank them and will buy again.
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Why do some movies linger with us but not others? I saw this movie in Boston, while in college. I was a hot shot(or so I thought) prep school grad and the college experience was initially hard to adjust to( less supervision and less coddling) It was about growing up and this is what happens to Sam Gifford. He is in a changing world where social classes are being hurled together. Sam is able to adjust but not some of his upperclass scions, Ray Mosby for example, who cracks under the strain of combat. ... Read More
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Truly a great film with a solid cast, I highly recomend this World War II
classic.
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Robert Wagner and Buddy Epson were great in this movie. It
reinforces what most know who served in a war. That looking out
for each other and trying to make it out alive is what its all about,
in spite of often idiotic/incompetent leadership.
This movie, especially for the 50's era, did not glorify war as most did.
Imo was a forerunner of movies like Saving Private Ryan and Band of Brothers.
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A fine '50s war movie that seems like a transition between some of the Hollywood propaganda-ish material that came before and the more cynical military-themed fare of the '60s and '70s. Broderick Crawford is fantastic as the unhinged captain, Waco, (he taunts Robert Wagner's character, calling him by his middle name, Francis, which makes me wonder if, decades later, Warren Oates' character in "Stripes", Sgt. Hulka, delivers the line "Lighten up, Francis" as a screenwriter's tribute. Sorry, that's just ... Read More
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