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A Walk in the Sun (1945) | User Rating
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DVD Release Date
• R1: Sep 24, 2002
Budget $800,000
Running Time
1 hour, 57 minutes
Country USA
Studio 20th Century Fox
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Other Titles
• A Walk in the Sun
• Landung in Salerno (1958)
• Salerno Beachhead (1946)
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Genre: War, Drama, World War II, Suspense, Military, Cult Classic
Plot: This WWII film was the first to use a ballad as a thematic element, a practice which, after HIGH NOON, would become a cliche of the 1950s. The film stars Dana Andrews as Sgt. Tyne, one of the officers leading an attack on a farmhouse in the Italian countryside which functions as a German stronghold. When the ranking officers are killed soon after the platoon lands on the beach, Tyne must take over. He leads his men along an ill-defined road toward the farmhouse while the company is periodically strafed. As they walk, each character has his own preoccupations: Windy (John Ireland) writes mental letters to his sister, Rankin (Chris Drake) talks lovingly about his "baby," his submachine gun. But there is one phrase all share: "Nobody dies." As they approach the farmhouse, Sgt. Ward (Lloyd Bridges) takes a scout patrol across the field with fatal results for two of his men. After he blows the only bridge to the farm, the rest of the platoon moves in for the final assault. One of the best WWII films, A WALK IN THE SUN combines documentary-like sequences with a sharp awareness of the isolation of each soldier in the midst of battle.
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| Directed by |
Lewis Milestone
All Quiet on the Western Front, Ocean's Eleven, Mutiny on the Bounty |
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| Written by |
Harry Brown
El Dorado, Sands of Iwo Jima, The Virgin Queen | Robert Rossen
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, The Sea Wolf, Marked Woman |
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 | Dana Andrews
The Best Years of Our Lives, Laura, The Ox-Bow Incident | Richard Conte
The Godfather, The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980, Ocean's Eleven | George Tyne
Sands of Iwo Jima, Call Northside 777, Marlowe | | | Norman Lloyd
Dead Poets Society, Spellbound, The Age of Innocence | |
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