Men in War (1957)

Directed by

Anthony Mann

Genre

war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

e 14

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 69 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A small group of American soldiers are cut off from their unit during the Korean War. They spend a single day trying to rejoin their division while dealing with enemy fire and internal strife.

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What happens

Men in War is a 1957 black-and-white American war film about the Korean War directed by Anthony Mann and starring Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray as the leaders of a small detachment of American soldiers cut off and desperately trying to rejoin their division. The events of the film take place on one day; 6 September 1950. The picture was based on a 1949 World War II novel of the Normandy campaign Day Without End by Van Van Praag that was retitled Combat in 1951. Made soon after the end of the Korean War, which was still very much in the minds of the American public. Some sources claim that credited screenwriter Philip Yordan was actually fronting for the blacklisted Ben Maddow. The Pentagon refused any cooperation with the producer and condemned the film for its depiction of a US Army unit without discipline. Most of the same cast and crew made God's Little Acre the following year. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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