Arthur Hunnicutt, Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin
John Huston's The Red Badge of Courage, like Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons, is a heartbreakingly beautiful film mutilated by its studio after a disastrous preview process. Yo...( read more
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DVD Release Date: February 4, 2003
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September 14, 2009In spite of the studio's blasphemous 'recut' of John Huston's work, The Red Badge of Courage successfully illuminates the fragile psyche of the foot soldier in harm's way. Audie Murphy, given his own combat experience, seems perfectly cast as the civil war private battlin...( read more)
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October 25, 2006Heavily scissored by the studio, it's distressing to think how good Huston's Civil War flick could have been. It has some truly gorgeous visuals, in particular the close-ups of the young soldiers facing their first taste of warfare and the shot of the sunlight breaking through in...( read more)
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January 25, 2009No soy fan de los temas militares, pero esta película vende su premisa y sus convicciones con mucha destreza. Muy buenas actuaciones. / I'm no fan of military themes, but this movie sells its premise and convictions with great skill. Very good performances.
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April 10, 2008I hated the book, so I suspect the movie will only be about the same old crap. Man, the turds they pawn off as literature is a crying shame.
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November 4, 2007For 1951 it was a pretty great movie. It had a great behind it, and got it acrossed well. I felt it ended a little suddenly, and to me it seemed like there seemed to be something missing, though im not sure what, but overall, it was a film , for any civil war buff, too see.
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