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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Alpha Video
EAN: 0089218404695
ESRB Age Rating: Everyone
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Alpha Video
Manufacturer: Alpha Video
Number Of Items: 1
Platform: Windows
Publisher: Alpha Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 24, 2002
Running Time: 112 minutes
Sales Rank: 28823
Studio: Alpha Video
Theatrical Release Date: December 25, 1945
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Platform: DVD MOVIE Publisher: ALPHA VIDEO Packaging: DVD STYLE BOX Sgt. Tyne (Dana Andrews) becomes the leader of his platoon after their lieutenant is killed in battle near Salerno. Reluctantly he guides his men through combat incurring heavy losses as they see action unlike anything they've known before. The one stumbling block on their march to Rome is a farmhouse where the Germans have holed up to mount a defense. As the platoon repels the enemy in brutal skirmishes the men form a bond between battles that's summed up by their repeated motivational phrase: "Nobody dies." This riveting war drama is considered by many to be the best World War II movie ever made. Director Lewis Milestone (All Quiet On The Western Front) delivers an unsentimental funny first-rate character study framed in action and filled with tense reflection and hard-fought conclusions culminating in the blood-curdling final assault on the German-held farmhouse. Unflinching and honest this is compelling war drama with realistic dialogue and marvelous acting from Andrews and cast. Based on a novel by Harry Brown.Starring: Dana Andrews John Ireland & Lloyd BridgesDirected by: Lewis MilestoneScreenplay by: Robert Rossen DVD Details: Run Time: 117 minutesNumber of Discs: 1Originally Released in 1945Black & WhiteNo region encoding; For global distribution.
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Alongside larger-scaled epics, this 1945 drama looks modest, but director Lewis Milestone achieves a gritty realism that is ultimately closer to the truth of combat. A World War I veteran, Milestone had already created a classic war film--and powerful antiwar statement--in 1930's All Quiet on the Western Front, focusing on German troops in the trenches during "the Great War." For obvious reasons, A Walk in the Sun views the action from the perspective of American troops, but Milestone and a strong cast headed by Dana Andrews and Richard Conte prove remarkably clear-eyed in this chronicle of a platoon moving through the Italian countryside following the successful, but bloody, invasion of Italy. There's little of the cheerleading fervor or reflexive demonizing of the enemy visible in other films from the period; instead, the men's treacherous odyssey captures the sense of random chaos as their bucolic trek is interrupted by sudden skirmishes. We're shown the deep bonds forged between the soldiers, the loss of innocence that is the inevitable price of combat experience, and the capricious fates that can spare one soldier while exterminating another. Milestone would extend his mastery of wartime fiction to include the Korean War, captured in the equally fine, equally sobering Pork Chop Hill. --Sam Sutherland
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A laughable attempt to make put realism in a war movie. The soldiers dumbly keep flocking together in middle of enemy terrority , sheepishly walk out in the open while under fire , ask dumb questions , make half dumb attempts at witt , act serious and dumb at the same time , are amazed with each other over dumb things. The only ones dumber are the germans who must of had ear plugs to avoid listening to the dumb music score and that trick let the american soldiers talk loudly as they pleased. The ... Read More
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This film is adapted from the book by Harry Brown about the experiences of infantrymen. The US Armed Forces provided support for this film. Soldiers are on a landing barge preparing to invade Italy in 1943. The lieutenant looked over the top when a shell burst and wounded him. The sergeant is now in command. The conversations tell about each soldier. They are being sent 6 miles inland to capture a farmhouse. The men grumble and complain when waiting. The sun comes up and they are still waiting. They ... Read More
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This is the first video I purchased, back when tapes first became available. I remembered the movie from the theater presentation. Truly an outstanding flick.
The medic was the voice for the recording ""Peter and the Wolf" among and cartoon features.
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I bought the video hoping to see a classic, which I did. The story was wonderful, both poignant and realistic. I loved every moment, but this film deserves better than the copies I have viewed. Not one of them does it justice. Grainyness, skipping, uncoordination of sound and video make viewing difficult. Come on AFI and the big studios, you could really make this film a gem. Time to step up and restore it to its former glory.
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Sicily...WWII...GI's against the Germans.
Amazing. Over 60 years old and it still "holds up".
It's got a cast that endured for decades as some the finest character actors on the Silver Screen. But more than that its got a script with some delicious dialogue delivering a melodramatic glimpse of a rather insignificant platoon attacking an enemy occupied farmhouse.
Superb Continuity and Editing.
A B&W production that never cries for color.
See it...and ... Read More
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