Battle Cry Raoul Walsh Digital Life DVD

Battle Cry
starring: Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Nancy Olson, James Whitmore
directed by: Raoul Walsh

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780790776576
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 079077657X
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 13, 2003
Running Time: 149 minutes
Sales Rank: 14728
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 02, 1955

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Van Heflin, Aldo Ray and Tab Hunter in Raoul Walsh's hard-hitting-action epic of Marine Corps heroism in the WWII Pacific, based on Leon Uris' gritty best-seller. Year: 1955

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The most interesting--and entertaining--aspect of this long, episodic World War II drama is that it marked the debut of one Justus E. McQueen, who subsequently took the name of the good ol' Arkansas boy he played in the movie: L.Q. Jones. He's only one of eight or nine Marine recruits who divide the screen time with commanding officer Van Heflin and James Whitmore as a lifer sergeant named Mac, 'just Mac,' who ramrods their squad and also delivers the movie's overbearing narration. Unfortunately, the narration is necessary to maintain continuity as the CinemaScope production galumphs its way from rounding up the melting-pot cast, to seeing them through basic training and sundry, mostly amatory misadventures in San Diego, to further training in New Zealand, and finally to baptism of fire on Guadalcanal.

Trouble is, among the recruits only McQueen/Jones (whose job is mostly comic relief) and Aldo Ray (as a brawling lumberjack who's never known family life) have any charisma or acting chops--and that's not forgetting Tab Hunter, whose matinee-idol status at the time does not speak well for the '50s. Battle Cry is also a cardinal example of Hollywood's penchant for buying big, lusty, profane bestsellers (by Leon Uris, in this case) and then euphemizing all the lustiness and profanity to appease the censors. Raoul Walsh, the poet laureate of lowdown gusto, does what he can in the circumstances, and as one of the first guys ever to direct a widescreen movie (1930's The Big Trail), he makes the battle scenes roar. --Richard T. Jameson

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- This a great movie
I have the VHS version, so decided to see if I could find a copy on DVD. I was very glad to see it is now available on DVD. I really liked this movie...and it is very special to me in that it was my 1954 boot camp platoon (406) that was used in the boot camp and ship-loading sequences. Tab Hinter marched next to me, while Van Heflin drilled us up and down the grinder. John Wayne and other Hollywood elite looked on during the few days of filming. We were called 'Hollywood Marines' after that. Great memories, glad I can still see them on film.

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- Maybe you have to be a Marine
I served in the Marine Corps in the 1990s and I find more that I can relate to in this movie than in more recent films. I tried to watch Jarhead but it didnt ring true. Yet this film does. The cameradrie, it's all there. For history buffs the various uniforms are interesting to see. I do think that the Marines should be showing more sweat on their 60 mile hike.

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- Aldo Ray and Van Heflin are outstanding
I can't help it but I love this movie. Yes - it is a film about the Marines fighting in the Pacific in WWII but - surprise- there are very few battle scenes. 95% of the film is about recruiting the marines and the training in California and in New Zealand. It's mostly about the marines and their women- the nice girls back home, the pickups near the camps and the ones who Dear John them.
What endears me to this film are 2 or 3 elements that are outstanding. The emotional core of the film is the touching story of Andy Hookins played by Aldo Ray. Hookins is an ex lumberjack who has only known women in the "halls" of the lumber towns. Until he meets and falls deeply in love with Mrs. Pat Rogers - a woman who has lost both her husband and brother to the war. It is Ray's greatest performance. He convinces us that this big lumberjack has been transformed from a crude womanizer to a loving husband and father.
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- ...GANG WAY!!!!!!.......HERE COMES THE MARINES.......
Excellent movie [DVD] about WW2 and the USMC....from the spartan Marine Boot Camp scenes and the dangerous amphibious landing/assaults against Japanese Marines throughout the Pacific war...good casting and on location scenery...looking again at Mainside at Camp Pendleton, Calif brought back fond memories of the physically brutal combat preparation for service in the Fleet Marine Force...Van Heflin portrayed a Marine Major who over identifies with his Marines, a rare breed of Officer, but pulls it off just the same...his Sgt/Major, the wiley James Whitmore cast perfectly as the combat/crusted 'old salt' [a 30 yr Marine] and good luck to Witmore for he was a genuine Marine Major while making this film in real life [kudos]...Tab Hunter can't act to save his life but there he was, must of had a good agent...moving onto his home/town girl, Mona Freeman, she's to be a teenage sweetheart but looks 30ish, if for a day, ... Read More

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