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Battleground

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Battleground
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NR,1hr 58min
Genres:
War,Action
Released:
January 20, 1950
Director:
William Wellman
Distributor:
MGM
Starring:
Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban  ...more
Synopsis: Incoming MGM production head Dore Schary ramrodded Battleground into the studio's schedule over the virulent protests of MGM boss Louis Mayer. The result was an award-winning box-office hit, as well as the beginning of the end of Mayer's power. This dramatization of the battles of Bastogne and the Bulge in the waning days of World War II concentrates on a single infantry unit. Van Johnson and John Hodiak are the ostensible stars, but the film is stolen by James Whitmore as the cigar-chomping, battle-stained ... Full Synopsis
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Karl Williams, AMG Review
Hailed by critics, audiences, and veterans alike, William Wellman's Battleground (1949), together with such other war movies as Wellman's earlier Ernie Pyle biopic The Story of G.I. Joe (1945) and Lewis Milestone's A Walk in the Sun (1945), set a new standard of de-glamorization in war films that continued for decades. The common elements of this new veracity were sharply observed details about the ... Full Review
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Van Johnson
Holley
John Hodiak
Jarvess
Ricardo Montalban
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George Murphy
Ernest "Pop" Stazak
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