It has the same tough mood Sam Fuller utilized in The Big Red One, where the horrors of the killing fields were openly shown. Wellman took the grunt's point of view, showing how the war was mostly a meaningless exercise of trying to survive and not a matter of heroics or flag-waving as often presented in Hollywood films. Pyle tags along with the infantry unit showing the citizen soldiers' baptism under fire, their loneliness and fears, and the chaos of war. By sending back touching dispatches, t...Les mer

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Robert Mitchum

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