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A Walk In The Sun details
| Format: | 12 DVD |
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| Starring: | Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne |
| Director: | Lewis Milestone |
| Genre: | Drama - Comedy, Period |
| Studio: | DB MUSIC SALES |
| Name | Discs | |
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A Walk In The Sun |
12 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 57 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 21 Nov 2011 |
| Main languages: | English |
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Another war milestone from Milestone
By RJNeb2 (922 reviews) from London , 04 Nov 2006[Highly rated reviewer]
While everyone automatically remembers Milestone's seminal film about the Great War, 'All Quiet on the Western Front', they tend to forget that this is an equally fine account of what the Second World War was like for the infantry grunts. The perspective here is one day in the Salerno landings with one platoon moving 6 miles inland to take a farmhouse. We barely see the enemy, but we totally get into the minds of these men - the ones who are coping with the stresses, strains and indeed boredom of warfare, and the ones who are not. Milestone makes the most of his limited resources with an ever mobile camera, and, more importantly, a fine cast and a literate script.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(6)A talk in the sun
By itstinks (681 reviews) from North of Reading , 24 Nov 2012There are a few action sequences but a lot of this film is about the soldiers talking as they walk along which could be annoying for many viewers but I found to be very well written.
Its not the hyper-real, culture driven conversations of Tarantino, more in the style of Stand By Me.
There is also some meditative musings as used later in Thin Red Line but without the slow-mo photography.
There is an annoying set of songs played now and then which sort of give it a feel of an old style western but don't detract too much.
Sterling performances all round.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Warworthy
By Cato (705 reviews) from Lydbury North , 12 Jun 2008A very worthy film about the 2nd world war, in which a group of American soldiers literally go for a walk in the sun to find an Italian farmhouse. Many are killed on the way. Wars are pitiable things in which men are heroes, and this collection of soldiers talk in the way that men do when they're up against their fate. Some of them approach their lot with humour, and some are very serious, but all of them are bonded in a very strong group. The film is long but never boring, the acting is rather theatrical, and the music leans on the side of the patriotic.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Time dims the memory
By a customer from Gloucestershire , 17 Sep 2007Remembered this one from the early days of BBC 2 on Sunday afternoons. Not a bad film for the time, but the black and white (greyness) makes it pale against the vividness of Private Ryan.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Nobody dies
By robert obrien from leicester UK , 24 Feb 2007A day in the life of a platoon landing on the Italian beaches, this is a gritty portrayal of the minutiae of the foot soldier's war. The men go their way in isolation, cut off from the main action which is always on the horizon, over the next hill. There is not a German (or woman) in sight throughout the day, in which long sequences of talk are interrupted by bursts of action when the director demonstrates his trademark cross-tracking camera sweeps. The characters are the usual mixture, with Richard Conte in top form as the laconic wise-cracker and John Ireland out of character and very effective as the sensitive onlooker. Walk in the Sun is marred by an occasional voiceover and a maudlin ballad, but stands out as a gripping forerunner to the likes of Attack and Saving Private Ryan.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Another war milestone from Milestone
By RJNeb2 (922 reviews) from London , 04 Nov 2006While everyone automatically remembers Milestone's seminal film about the Great War, 'All Quiet on the Western Front', they tend to forget that this is an equally fine account of what the Second World War was like for the infantry grunts. The perspective here is one day in the Salerno landings with one platoon moving 6 miles inland to take a farmhouse. We barely see the enemy, but we totally get into the minds of these men - the ones who are coping with the stresses, strains and indeed boredom of warfare, and the ones who are not. Milestone makes the most of his limited resources with an ever mobile camera, and, more importantly, a fine cast and a literate script.- Was this review helpful to you?
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