SUBJECTS

Condon, Richard. The Manchurian candidate -- Film and video adaptations, Van Praag, Van, 1920- Combat -- Film and video adaptations

Men in War

War on the ground has rarely been done much better than this.

David Denby, The New Yorker
featuring

Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Robert Keith, Phillip Pine,

Mann’s Korean War film depicts in stark close-up the tension and exhaustion—both physical and moral—of battle. Robert Ryan plays a lieutenant, out of communication with headquarters, trying with his platoon to rejoin their division on a distant hill. He is forced into an uncomfortable alliance with Aldo Ray, a volatile sergeant shepherding a shell-shocked colonel. Their dwindling group creeps painstakingly through a landscape whose late-summer textures camouflage a constant enemy presence. Stopping to smell the flowers is fatal. For the resigned Ryan, “battalion doesn’t exist, regiment doesn’t exist, the USA doesn’t exist”—just these men and this nameless hill.

Juliet Clark
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Philip Yordan
Based On
  • the novel Day Without End (Combat) by Van Van Praag

Cinematographer
  • Ernest Haller
Print Info
  • B&W
  • 35mm
  • 102 mins
Source
  • UCLA Film & Television Archive
Permission
  • Ignite Films
Additional Info
  • Preservation funded by the Packard Humanities Institute
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Mann's world: Anthony Mann on the big screen (program note), Pacific Film Archive, Judy Bloch, 2004

Men in war (review), Variety, Brog., 1957

Men in war (review), Green Sheet, 1957

New talent (review), Saturday Review, 1957

Honesty, suspense mark 'Man in war' (review), Los Angeles Times, Philip K. Scheuer, 1957

Movies-drama: Acting, script, score great! (review), Beverly Hills Citizen, Hazel Flynn, 1957

The tin star (program note), National Film Theatre (London, England)

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