Attack!

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Attack!

1956,

1h 47m,

War/

Drama

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Lt. Joe Costa (Jack Palance) is a part of Fragile Fox Company, a National Guard unit sent to a Belgian town in the final stages of World War II. Costa harbors some serious doubts about the leadership abilities of Captain Cooney (Eddie Albert), a coward who only secured his position because of his ties to Lt. Col. Bartlett (Lee Marvin). Cooney's inexperience and his open contempt for Costa threaten the lives of his men as they draw closer to Battle of the Bulge.

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André Bazin

L'Obs (France)

Dec 8, 2021

Such relative reservations on my part cannot prevail against the intellectual and formal beauties of Robert Aldrich's admirable -- and therefore eminently defensible -- film.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Jan 28, 2021

3.5/4

The great, tough Robert Aldrich, with his harsh black-and-white, edgy frames, and stark close-ups, takes on a play by Norman Brooks... and turns it into a ferocious portrait of men under pressure, whose worst enemy is cowardice.

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Matt Brunson

Film Frenzy

Dec 17, 2020

3/4

Jack Palance is so intense, you almost expect your own blood vessels to burst.

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

Nov 21, 2014

Aldrich's blunt and ferocious existentialism

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Margaret Pomeranz

At the Movies (Australia)

May 13, 2014

Look, it's very impressive.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Jul 29, 2010

B+

One of Robert Aldrich's best films, this dark, grim, cynical portrait of infantry warfare in 1944 Belgium is extremely well acted by Jack Palance, Lee Marvin, Eddie Albert and the rest of the male cast.

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George S

Apr 21, 2019

Surely one of the greatest American war films of all time.

Jan 27, 2019

The best thrilling movie ever made!

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Robert Aldrich

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Jack Palance

Lt. Joe Costa, Fox Co.

Eddie Albert

Capt. Erskine Cooney

Lee Marvin

Lt. Col. Clyde Bartlett, CO

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Synopsis

Lt. Joe Costa (Jack Palance) is a part of Fragile Fox Company, a National Guard unit sent to a Belgian town in the final stages of World War II. Costa harbors some serious doubts about the leadership abilities of Captain Cooney (Eddie Albert), a coward who only secured his position because of his ties to Lt. Col. Bartlett (Lee Marvin). Cooney's inexperience and his open contempt for Costa threaten the lives of his men as they draw closer to Battle of the Bulge.

Director: Robert Aldrich
Producer: Robert Aldrich
Screenwriter: James Poe
Production Co: The Associates & Aldrich Company Inc.
Genre: War, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 16, 2008
Runtime: 1h 47m

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