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A troubled veteran of World War I named Joe Delaney struggles to write a history of the marine company in which he served... more | full synopsisPlot Keywords:
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U.S. Marine Corps
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Based On Novel
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A well acted and authentic World War I film that gets better with each re-seeing. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Ari Fliakos | ... | Pvt. Joseph Delaney | |
| Terry Serpico | ... | Sgt. James Dunning | |
| Steve Cuiffo | ... | Pvt. Edward Carter | |
| Joe Delafield | ... | Pvt. Emil Ayres | |
| Rik Alan Walter | ... | Capt. Terence Matlock | |
| Daniel Stewart Sherman | ... | Sgt. 'Pig Iron' Riggin | |
| P.J. Sosko | ... | Cpl. Clarence Foster | |
| Cosmo Pfeil | ... | Pvt. Nate Mountain | |
| Adam Groves | ... | Pvt. Bernie Glass | |
| Matt Seidman | ... | Sgt. Raymond Prado | |
| Ian Pfister | ... | Pvt. Al Nallett | |
| James Nardella | ... | Pvt. Archie Lemon | |
| Thomas Sadoski | ... | Cpl. Richard Mundy | |
| Tina Benko | ... | Hope | |
| Hillary Keegin | ... | Annette |
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Company K by Robert Clem is a serious work that should be seen, and, more importantly, re-seen.
The film begins with a quotation from William March's autobiographical World War I novel of the same name, but it could have begun with the quotation from Erich Maria Remarque's novel, All Quiet on the Western Front: "This book is neither an accusation nor a confession. It will simply tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped its shells, were destroyed by the war." There are differences. Remarque's book was about German soldiers, whereas Company K is about American soldiers. And Company K is more of an accusation and a confession, although the film has an overall documentary feel.
The plot is a string of episodes, each focusing on a key experience of a different soldier in the unit. The structure follows March's plan for his book where each story is placed on a wheel and the wheel spun "in an unending circle of pain." Some viewers might find this narrative structure too unusual because there isn't really a high climax. The end of the war is simply a brief episode bridging to the postwar traumas of Private Joe Delaney (March) and others. This anticlimactic episode is handled subtly: The soldiers don't jump up and throw their helmets in the air; they sigh, stare dumbly, and drop their helmets to the ground.
Many other episodes have similar ironic strength. A country soldier who has never seen an airplane exclaims one's approach; he is strafed. Inexperienced officers talk Ivy League politics but make battlefield blunders; one attempts suicide and another is murdered by an exhausted enlisted man. Two soldiers with grumbling stomachs eat blood-soaked enemy pumpernickel. An experienced French prostitute admits that she had promised to save herself for her boyfriend until he was killed early in the war.
In a prologue scene before the opening credits, Delaney tells his wife of his book about the war. She advises him to leave out the part about murdering a group of German prisoners. It's a well-chosen prologue -- the events surrounding that episode and its aftermath are the film's most powerful.
The young actors are excellent and perform with conviction. Dialog is well written and delivered. The authenticity of uniforms, weapons, vehicles, and battlefield locations is impressive. There is no cast of a thousand extras, but the judicious use of actual WWI footage expands the scope some.
Company K is one of those few films that get better with re-seeing. Fresh nuances appear each time wiping blood off bayonets, soldiers crossing themselves as shells falls on friends, battle-fatigued faces and the effect grows. This film ought to be studied alongside the novel in college courses.