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White Heat
Academy Award-vinner James Cagney leverer en kraftytelse som en morderisk og psykotisk kriminell mesterhjerne med et overveldende morskompleks i kriminalthrilleren White Heat. I fengsel blir Cody Jarrett (Cagney) venn med en undercover-politimann (Edmond O'Brien) som utgir seg for å være en ung kjeltring -- som tilsynelatende forguder den hardbarkede gangsteren som lider av semi-epileptiske anfall, skremmende voldsutbrudd og en nesten incestuøs tilknytning til sin mor. Løslatt fra fengsel planlegger Jarrett et angivelig perfekt kupp, uvitende om at hans partnere planlegger å drepe ham og hans høyre hånd jobber for politiet. Trengt inn i et hjørne velger heller Jarrett en eksplosiv handling av selvoppgivelse enn overgivelse i denne klassikeren innen gangster-sjangeren.
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Sands of Iwo Jima
In this popular World War II feature, John Wayne is John Stryker, a relentlessly tough Marine sergeant who trains a squad of naïve, rebellious recruits at a New Zealand military station. Utilizing footage from real battles for authenticity, the film received considerable assistance from the United States Marines.
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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, the citizens back home can read about their loved ones and defenders of their country to get an idea of what the soldier was thinking and how the war was really going. This competently made, slow paced, convincing war drama managed to convey the GI humor and portray them in a sympathetic light. It avoided banality by striking a poignant note in regards to the tragedy of war also it captured in a natural way the soldiers' lingo and concerns. One of the better war films.
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