Word: iwo
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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...
...Sands of Iwo Jima (Republic...
...week or so ago this newspaper reviewed one of the recent outburst of war movies, "Sands of Iwo Jima." We said the movie was trite and inaccurate. The next morning's mail promptly turned up a letter and a postcard, the second signed by "one who was there." Both claimed that the movie was realistic and therefore praiseworthy, mainly because it included clips from official Navy documentaries about the Pacific...
...like. For "Battleground" combines a documentary's accuracy with the close-up look at individuals that no documentary can give. And it avoids the stereotyped action (boy meets girl and leaves her because duty calls, corporal hates sergeant because of prewar rivalry but repents when wounded) of "Sands of Iwo Jima...
...sleep-tonight level, rather than trying to cover the complexity of an entire operation. Genuine combat films are fine, but you may 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...