Men in War

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Men in War

1957,

1h 44m,

War

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88%

8 Reviews

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250+ Ratings

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8 Reviews

75%

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250+ Ratings

At the start of the Korean War, Lt. Benson (Robert Ryan) and his platoon are ordered to rendezvous with American forces at Hill 465. Benson and his troops encounter a truck containing Sgt. Montana (Aldo Ray) and his passenger, a colonel (Robert Keith) experiencing psychological combat trauma. Benson, who believes the safe passage of his men takes precedence over the colonel's medical needs, seizes the truck to transport his platoon's equipment -- a decision that Montana fiercely opposes.

Michael Phillips

Chicago Tribune

Jul 2, 2015

3.5/4

Time has proved its unassuming, unadorned craftsmanship - and Ryan's understanding of men pushed to the edge, never asking for an audience's sympathy, only our awareness.

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David Denby

The New Yorker

Oct 28, 2008

War on the ground has rarely been done much better than this.

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Derek Adams

Time Out

Jun 24, 2006

One of the best of the lost patrol movies, set in Korea in 1950, bleakly anti-heroic and prefiguring Milestone's Pork Chop Hill in the bitter irony of its climactic assault on a hill.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson

Combustible Celluloid

Oct 29, 2016

3.5/4

A razor-sharp use of environment. Though the territory is wild and unknown, Mann still emphasizes clarity of action over chaos.

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Emanuel Levy

EmanuelLevy.Com

Aug 25, 2012

A-

Grim, harsh, stunningly shot, Mann's Korean War drama is one of the best samplers of its genre.

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

Oct 24, 2010

B

It's a routine 'lost patrol' war drama.

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Luke W

May 28, 2018

A tough, dogged look at the psychological beating combat troops endure. Film has special meaning for me because my mother named me Aldo Ray after seeing this movie in the summer of 1958. I was born two months later on September 6th --- coincidently, the events in the film all took place on the same date.

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Anthony Mann

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Robert Ryan

Lt. Benson

Aldo Ray

Sgt. Montana

Robert Keith

The Colonel

Phillip Pine

Sgt. Riordan

Vic Morrow

Cpl. James Zwickley

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Synopsis

At the start of the Korean War, Lt. Benson (Robert Ryan) and his platoon are ordered to rendezvous with American forces at Hill 465. Benson and his troops encounter a truck containing Sgt. Montana (Aldo Ray) and his passenger, a colonel (Robert Keith) experiencing psychological combat trauma. Benson, who believes the safe passage of his men takes precedence over the colonel's medical needs, seizes the truck to transport his platoon's equipment -- a decision that Montana fiercely opposes.

Director: Anthony Mann
Producer: Sidney Harmon
Screenwriter: Philip Yordan, Ben Maddow
Production Co: Security Pictures
Genre: War
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 3, 2019
Runtime: 1h 44m

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