Rating: - All is Fair in Love and War
Battle Circus is a war film that is set on the borderline of war. It follows the activities of a hospital near the front where wounded soldiers and prisoners go for aid. Humphrey Bogart plays a stubborn and war-worn surgeon who has an eye for a nurse played by June Allyson. The two have suprisingly good chemistry with each other, possibly because they were friends in life. Some might say this film is a lot like MASH, but it reads more like classic Hollywood than modern television.
They really do not make movies like this anymore. The romance between the doctor and the nurse seems stereotypical and doomed to fail, but with the chemistry between the two and the intelligence of the characters, it seems it might just work out despite everything working against them. There is a certain amount of hope projected that is rarely seen today. Too bad; it makes for a great ending and a great film.
Rating: - Battle Circus Redux
My VHS tape is going bad. Make it into a D V D format!!!! I was stationed at K 55 twice. In '68 after the Pueblo was captured and lost a good buddy that was in a M A S H. And again in '72. This is and I suppose it still is a very nice country, the people are very friendly and outgoing. I have spent many a day with friends and family in Osan. The good friend was a Korean loading leader (air freight) and spoke very good English. His whole family, wife and three kids always welcomed me into their home. The war was extreamly rough on those people. The movie told it just about the way it was, dirty, bloody, and just plain rotten. !!!!
Rating: - Unusual star teaming in neat war story
I always tend to enjoy films where the casting is a bit off beat and where the leads are not at fist glance a likely combination. Such is the case in "Battle Circus" with the once off and very unlikely combination of Humphrey Bogart, veteran star of many tough guy roles at Warners, and June Allyson the 40's sweetheart of MGM. I must say it makes for an interesting and surprisingly compatiable star teaming.
"Battle Circus" while never being in the top range of Bogart films over the years delivers a vivid and well documented story set during the Korean war, 30years before the famed TV series MASH tackled the same topic. This film tells the story of one such MASH unit responsible for the care of the allied forces wounded at whatever front the fighting takes them. It focuses on the love /hate relationship that develops between cynical world weary unit doctor Major Jed Webbe (Humphrey Bogart) and dedicated ... Read More
Rating: - Meat and potatoes without gravy
Humphrey Bogart is always worth watching, even in an essentially bad film. "Battle Circus" falls into that category simply by virtue of his being paired with June Allyson. I'm not knocking June, but she was as awkwardly cast opposite Bogart as she was at home beside James Stewart. This movie is interesting for its portrayal of a MASH unit long before Robert Altman's more radical film, but it focuses on romance more than war. That approach may have worked with "Casablanca," but this isn't "Casablanca." After winning his Oscar for "The African Queen," Bogart was quoted as saying he would concentrate on "meat and potatoes" pictures, as opposed to more ambitious material. This is meat and potatoes without the gravy.
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