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1945 |
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DRAMA
WAR
WORLD WAR II
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BW |
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| Length: |
117 |
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In 1943, an infantry platoon lands at Salerno and fights its way six miles inland.
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Reviewed by Chris Tookey
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| Powerful, well acted war film which was successful at the box office and favourably reviewed. But it's not on the level of Milestone's previous war epic, All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), and it hasn't dated well. The problem lies in Rossen's script - though literate, intelligent and ironic, it's also literary, verbose and pseudo-philosophical. The action sequences are exciting, though, and its principal innovation - the use of a ballad as a narration device - proved influential on later films, such as High Noon (1952). |
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, Richard Conte 