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Battleground

1949, Movie, NR, 118 mins

Battleground: Review

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An excellent film, BATTLEGROUND tells the story of a squad of American foot soldiers trapped by the Germans in Bastogne in 1944. A wide assortment of MGM actors--none of them overreaching the prosaic dimensions of his character--play this cross-section of citizens, including Johnson, a wisecracking, girl-chasing GI "inconvenienced" by the war; and Hodiak, a conscientious small-time newspaperman turned soldier. (At one point, when food is running out in the besieged town, Joh... read more leave a comment

Battleground: Cast & Details

Year: 1949
Rated NR
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Cast
 Van Johnson: Holley
John Hodiak: Jarvess
Ricardo Montalban: Roderigues
George Murphy: Pop Stazak
Marshall Thompson: Jim Layton
Jerome Courtland: Abner Spudler

 

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Sergeant Kinnie (James Whitmore) decides his battered platoon (Van Johnson, George Murphy et...
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Holley (Van Johnson) rejoins the platoon after a trip to Paris as Layton (Marshall Thompson)...
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Veteran Actor James Whitmore Dies at 87

James Whitmore, an award-winning actor in film, television and on the stage, died on Friday of lung cancer, his son Steve tells the Associated Press. He was 87.

The character actor's colorful career included numerous one-man stage shows, such films as Black Like Me and The Shawshank Redemption, and TV's The Practice (for which he won a guest-star Emmy).

Among other accolades, Whitmore earned ... read more

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