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Director:

John Huston

Writers:

Stephen Crane (novel)
John Huston (screenplay)
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Contact:

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Release Date:

16 March 1951 (USA) more

Genre:

Drama | War more

Tagline:

Stephen Crane's Great American Story of the Civil War more

Plot:

Truncated adaptation of Stephen Crane's novel about a Civil War Union soldier who stuggles to find the courage to fight in the heat of battle. full summary | add synopsis

Awards:

Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. more

NewsDesk:

Rowling Bans Online Potter Books
 (From WENN. 16 June 2005)

User Comments:

A really good movie and a really good performance more (40 total)


Cast

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Audie Murphy ... The Youth
Bill Mauldin ... The Loud Soldier
Douglas Dick ... The Lieutenant
Royal Dano ... The Tattered Man
John Dierkes ... The Tall Soldier
Arthur Hunnicutt ... Bill Porter
Tim Durant ... The General
Andy Devine ... The Cheery Soldier

Robert Easton ... Thompson (as Robert Easton Burke)
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Additional Details

Runtime:

69 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1 more

Sound Mix:

Mono (Western Electric Sound System)

Certification:

USA:Approved (certificate #14937) | Canada:PG (video rating) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15


Fun Stuff

Trivia:

Early in the film, Henry Fleming ('Audie Murphy') is shown writing a letter to his family. The date at the top of the letter is 10 September, 1862. This makes the battle depicted in the film either Turner's Gap, South Mountain, Maryland, on Sept 14; or Antietam Creek (Sharpsburg), Maryland, on Sept 17. Scholarship generally agrees that the battle in the novel is more like Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 1863. The novel never names a place or gives a date. more

Goofs:

Factual errors: The enlisted soldiers in the film are shown wearing the rectangular Model 1851 belt plate instead of the brass oval "US" belt plate worn by enlisted soldiers. more

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in "South Park: The Red Badge of Gayness (#3.14)" (1999) more


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A really good movie and a really good performance, 14 June 2003
Author: richard from Texas

This is really a very fine film and after seeing it on has to wonder why Audie Murphy never had more substantial roles in his career, as he was quite good in this film. As was mentioned in a previous post he was playing himself in the movie To Hell and Back and was essentially a B-Western actor the remainder of his career. This films shows that he was much more talented than one would ever know from watching the bulk of his films.

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