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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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MCT: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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MCT:November 4, 2007
For 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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MCT:August 7, 2007
Not a bad movie, it's powerful and meaningful even today. However, read the book for the full effect.
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MCT:July 14, 2007One of the most famous examples of a studio altering a director's vision in post-production. Huston's cut ran approx. 2 hrs. before being slashed down to the 69 min. version that was released, and still the director proclaimed this the best film he ever made. I don't concur, but it is difficult to argue against this being a pretty special film. Even in its compact form, the movie feels amazingly complete, with splendid-looking battle scenes and its extraordinary look at the existential concerns that individual soldiers encounter in the realm of savage warfare. No soldier wants to feel that he is the least brave member of his company, especially when everyone around him seems so intrepid and at the ready to charge into battle. This is a story about finding redemption, and how receiving that assurance then leads to the gaining of courage to face mortal uncertainties without crippling distress. I'm a fan of Crane's novel, and Huston was smart to use the book's text verbatim to unearth these observations. We'll never know how good the lost director's cut was, but what we are left with is far from the disaster that could have resulted from such studio tampering.
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MCT:November 26, 2006
Completely devoid of emotional impact and messily structured, but Huston's direction is solid and the cinematography is marvelous. The film's flaws are more a result of the studio's lack of vision than Huston's, but they're there nonetheless.
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MCT:October 25, 2006
Heavily 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 shafts through the trees. The decision to keep the novel's anonymous characters (the film is adapted from a Stephen Crane novel), pays off, adding to the sense of alienation in combat (they are referred to in adjective titles, ie: 'The Tattered Man', 'The Tall Soldier'). Murphy also convinces as a young lad staring death in the face, and his eventual defiance in not letting the flags touch the ground makes for some striking cinematography, irregardless of your stance on war. Sadly, this would-be great was truncated down to just over an hour's worth of footage, making it a frustrating experience. In doing so, the audience feels a little short-changed by Murphy getting over his demons in about fifty minutes, the same effect as watching the regular cut of Apocalypse Now after one has grown accustomed to the full nightmare of Redux. What could have been....
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