Film · MGM · 1949
Pass it on
Battleground
68Worth an evening.
A squad in the snow, nobody famous, and it felt closer to the war than the speeches.
The review
Snow, a replacement, and a man who wants to go home. That is the size of the story. The Battle of the Bulge, from a squad. The work is staying in a line. The heroes are not famous. It was made soon after the war by people who knew the cold. Older teens. Leave the wounds alone.
I recognized the fellow who wants his own kitchen more than he wants to be brave. The film does not mock him, and it does not let that want dissolve the line. Nobody rides in from headquarters to be the point. Plenty of war pictures need a great man. This one leaves the cold, the squad, and the plain fact that going home was the thing they might miss.
Journal
Keep Battleground in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 68. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household is the thin one.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Master and Commander
81 instead of 68
Master and Commander is still a war film, and it scores 81 instead of 68. What you gain is household: The crew is the household.
The eight
- 8Industry
The job is a squad in snow: a replacement, and holding the line.
- 4Household
One soldier wants to go home, and home never becomes the scene.
- 5Piety
Wanting his own life does not release him from the men beside him.
- 9Courage
They risk the Bulge, which is the life and the home they would miss.
- 8Republic
The debt is to the squad and the line, not to any famous general.
- 7Temperance
The wish to go home is real, and it is not allowed to break the line.
- 7Truth
No great-man tale; the picture stays with ordinary soldiers in the cold.
- 6Stewardship
What is left is a line held by men the film refuses to make famous.
Where to watch
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Live Historic · Battleground · 68IMDb
