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Battleground is a 1949 American war film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalbán, George Murphy, and James Whitmore. It follows a fictional company of the 327th Glider Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division as they fight in the siege of Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge, in World War II. The screenplay was written by Robert Pirosh, based on his own…
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Of all war films made in Hollywood, the most authentic are those about the Second World War, at least those made in the first years or decades after the conflict. The reason for that is the large number of veterans in front of and behind the cameras. With the war safely over and without the need for propaganda sugar-coating, those men wanted the world and future generations to know what they had really gone through.…More
This week for the CineTV contest is a movie involving bad weather. Something I can relate to right now with just having had a fresh blizzard dropping over a foot of snow on us. But coming up with a movie relating to bad weather is a bit of a struggle, and had to give it a fair amount of thought. The end result is… *Battleground* poster - IMDB *Battleground* (1949) starring Van Johnson with Ricardo Montalban (can we…More
