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Posted on 09/19/2026 2:20:53 PM PDT by Twotone
The end of World War Two didn't mean the end of movies about the war. Far from it – the next decade or so would see what began as propaganda films transform into their own subgenre. First of all, though, American audiences – which included returning veterans – had to find a way to deal with the return to civilian life and peacetime. They had a film like The Best Years of Our Lives to cloak the immediate challenges with the appropriate amount of grit and optimism (along with lesser-known pictures like Edward Dmytryk's Till the End of Time, also released in 1946).
After that Hollywood tried to tell the story of the war with conventional stories of battles and campaigns like Sands of Iwo Jima and Battleground or espionage thrillers like O.S.S., 13 Rue Madelaine and Malaya. The air force got a lot of attention with pictures like Command Decision, Fighter Squadron, Jungle Patrol and Twelve O'Clock High. Lassie fought in the Aleutians and got PTSD in Courage of Lassie. The British echoed these stories with their own – pictures like Theirs is the Glory, School for Secrets, Journey Together, Against the Wind, The Small Back Room and They Were Not Divided – though they didn't have their Lassie picture.
But then a new decade began and with it a new war – the "police action" in Korea, which would soon produce films of its own, and its own crop of veterans. There were a lot more war films coming out of Hollywood; in 1950 alone there was Tyrone Power in Fritz Lang's American Guerilla in the Philippines, Breakthrough, Halls of Montezuma, The Men, When Willie Comes Marching Home, Mystery Submarine and Three Came Home; Francis the Talking Mule unmasked a Japanese spy in Burma in Francis.
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“, The Winds of War is good.”
TH\he historical stuff was great.
I got a great kick out them casting some homo as Ali McGraw’s lover.
He so clearly had no interest in women or chemistry with her as to be comical.
That Polly whoever singing her chorus girl ching ching china something would be sooooo racissss these days
One of the best was recent:
“The Pacific”
A true shame so many of those portrayed never got to see it like my father.
He had a front page photo in some NY paper showing him on Okinawa administering an IV to a Marine on a stretcher.
That B & W grittiness and mud were well shown in The Pacific.
And they both played Major Bonacelli on Hogan’s Heroes.
You’re right. My mistake.
Vitto Scotti was also played the crazy scientist in a couple more episodes who abducted the castaways to perform mind-swapping experiments and later to turn the castaways into zombie-slaves who muttered “I hear and I obey…” with a plan to rob Fort Knox.
Agreed. It resonates hard here in Alabama. The film drew upon 2 memoirs written by U.S. Marine veterans - 1 of which, With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (1981) was by Alabamian Eugene ("Sledgehammer") Sledge, who served as a mortar team crew member during Peleliu and Okinawa. It was brutal reading. Sledge suffered from shell shock/combat fatigue/PTSD for the rest of his life. He eventually became a biology professor at the University of Montevallo. I have 2 friends who took his class during the mid-1970s.
The only thing wrong with Battleground is Van Johnson...he always seems to be overacting. And his character was a jerk in that movie
Hated red balls on the Alert Pad, two-man rule and all.
Oh, not that red ball…
In "The Speech" Patton (the actual Patton) also emphasized the need for everyone to do their jobs.
"Homo with Ali McGraw..." LOL
"A great movie then they put a girl in it..." LOL.
Etc. It would be awesome if The New Yorker subbed out the movie reviews to you FReepers.
Pauline Kael you ain't.
Which of course is great.
Kelly’s Heroes was very loosely based on a true story involving the theft of Nazi gold after the war. My grandfather was part of that story as he was asked to investigate and refused due to fact he was going home (to avoid doing it).
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