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Release Date:
25 December 1945 (USA)
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Tagline:
THEY FOUGHT BEST WHEN IT WAS HOPELESS! (print ad for reissue "Salerno Beachhead" - all caps)
Plot:
In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse...
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Nominated for BAFTA Film Award.
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A landmark, one-of-a-kind war film.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Dana Andrews | ... | Sgt. Bill Tyne | |
| Richard Conte | ... | Pvt. Rivera | |
| George Tyne | ... | Pvt. Jake Friedman | |
| John Ireland | ... | Pfc. Windy Craven | |
| Lloyd Bridges | ... | Sgt. Ward | |
| Sterling Holloway | ... | McWilliams | |
| Norman Lloyd | ... | Pvt. Archimbeau | |
| Herbert Rudley | ... | Sgt. Eddie Porter | |
| Richard Benedict | ... | Pvt. Tranella | |
| Huntz Hall | ... | Pvt. Carraway | |
| James Cardwell | ... | Sgt. Hoskins | |
| George Offerman Jr. | ... | Pvt. Tinker | |
| Steve Brodie | ... | Pvt. Judson | |
| Matt Willis | ... | Sgt. Pete Halverson | |
| Chris Drake | ... | Rankin |
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Salerno Beachhead (USA) (reissue title)
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117 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Finland:K-18 (DVD rating) (2008) |
Finland:K-16 (theatrical rating) (1950) |
Sweden:15 |
UK:A (original rating) |
UK:12 (re-rating) (2005)
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Continuity: When a small patrol attacks the farm house they have to return to the wall. Lloyd Bridges is shown throwing his rifle over the wall with a bayonet attached. The next scene shows his bayonet in its scabbard on his back pack.
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Pvt. Archimbeau:
Every dirty job in the army is my personal property.
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Featured in Blue in the Face (1995)
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IT WAS JUST A LITTLE WALK IN THE SUN
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One of the best war movies ever made, directed by Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front), this movie is distinguished by its depiction of war from the soldier's individual point of view. Unlike most war movies, this is infantry combat as seen through the eyes of several members of a platoon as it walks through the Italian countryside in 1943 on its way to seize a German observation post. In all the action sequences, you never see anything that the individual soldier (German, Italian or American) depicted on the screen doesn't see. You only see what is happening around him as he sees it. I've seen them all, and no other director ever approached war filming this way. And I can tell you personally that this is the way it was in combat. The only errors in the entire movie involved grenades: you don't blow bridges with them and you don't pull their pins with your teeth--that's the best way I know of pulling out a tooth w/o a dentist's helping hand. A landmark movie made during the war and only released after the war ended in 1945 because of the final scenes. Matched only by William Wellman's "A Story of GI Joe," this is the best film on infantry combat produced from World War II. Yes, yes, I've seen "Saving Private Ryan." Except for the shock of the first 20 minutes, it's Steven Spielberg's three-star remembrance of his boyhood comic book war stories.