Kings Go Forth (1958)

Directed by

Delmer Daves

Genre

drama film, action film, war film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 49m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 21 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two American soldiers in World War II France both fall for a local woman. Their friendship is tested when her mixed-race ancestry becomes a point of tension.

romantictensemelancholicdramaticseriousoutdatedconflict-driven

What happens

Kings Go Forth is a 1958 American black-and-white World War II film starring Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood. The screenplay was written by Merle Miller from the 1956 novel of the same name by Joe David Brown, and the film was directed by Delmer Daves. The plot involves friends of different backgrounds manning an observation post in Southern France who fall in love with the same French girl. She proves to be of American Mulatto ancestry. Themes of racism and miscegenation provide the conflict elements between the leading characters, something that was out of the ordinary for films of the time, while the setting during the so-called Champagne Campaign remains unique. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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