Home of the Brave (1949)

Directed by

Mark Robson

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of soldiers in World War II face the psychological horrors of jungle combat against the Japanese. One African American soldier endures racial prejudice from his own unit. The film explores how war and bigotry affect each man differently.

tensepsychologicalsombercharacter-drivenreflectiveintenseseriousclaustrophobic

What happens

Home of the Brave is a 1949 American war film based on a 1945 play of the same name by Arthur Laurents. It was directed by Mark Robson, and stars Douglas Dick, Jeff Corey, Lloyd Bridges, Frank Lovejoy, James Edwards, and Steve Brodie. The original play featured the protagonist being Jewish, rather than black. The National Board of Review named the film the eighth best of 1949. The film takes its name from the last line of the "Star Spangled Banner" "And the home of the brave?" Home of the Brave managed to combine three of the top film genres of 1949: the war film, the psychological drama, and the problems of African-Americans. The film utilizes the recurrent theme of a diverse group of men being subjected to the horror of war and their individual reactions, in this case, to the hell of jungle combat against the Japanese in World War II. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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