Battle Circus (1953)

Directed by

Richard Brooks

Genre

war film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 28m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A surgeon and a nurse fall in love while working together at a mobile army hospital during the Korean War. Their relationship develops amid the constant pressure of treating wounded soldiers and dealing with enemy attacks.

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What happens

Battle Circus is a 1953 American war film directed by Richard Brooks, who also co-wrote the screenplay with married writing duo Laura Kerr and Allen Rivkin. The movie stars Humphrey Bogart and June Allyson, and costars Keenan Wynn and Robert Keith. The film is set in South Korea during the Korean War. Bogart (in his only film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) plays Major Jed Webbe, a surgeon and commander of Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) 8666 (shortened to "66" in the dialogue), with Allyson playing Lieutenant Ruth McCara, a newly arrived nurse. Despite initial obstacles, their love flourishes against a background of war, enemy attacks, death and injury. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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