Word: battleground
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...theory that U.S. audiences had seen enough fighting during the war, the film industry tacitly agreed to ease off on battle pictures for a while. But last season, after the success of Battleground, Twelve O'Clock High, Sands of Iwo Jima, and a farce called Francis about a talking army mule, Hollywood decided to put on its uniform...
...Battleground...
Redheaded, 67-year-old Jim Duff was locked in a rousing fight with the moss-grown, reactionary forces of bright-eyed, apple-cheeked, 87-year-old Joe Grundy. The battleground was the May primaries, when Duff will run for the Senate nomination against John C. Kunkel, a faithful, colorless Grundyman now serving his sixth lackluster term in Congress. More than any platform or pronouncements, the outcome might well determine, the course and fate of the Republican Party...
...brutal battleground. The temperature dipped as low as 52° below zero. Soldiers clad in nearly 25 Ibs. of special Arctic clothing, carrying another 34 Ibs. of special equipment, crawled through waist-deep snow, over hummocks of frozen muskeg. For hundreds of miles on every side stretched trackless pine forests and mountains. Said one corporal: "Anybody who'd invade this Godforsaken place is just plain damn wacky...
...find they go down better straight, as in "Fighting Lady" or "Action in North Africa," than when watered down with histrionies, as in "Sands of Iwo Jima." And if you're interested in something a little more subtle than isolated clips of a battleship shelling a beach, go see "Battleground...