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...Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane's classic Civil War novel, handsomely translated by Writer-Director John Huston into one of the best war films ever made; with Audie Murphy and Bill Mauldin (TIME...
...Badge of Courage. Stephen Crane's classic Civil War novel, handsomely translated by Writer-Director John Huston into one of the best war films ever made; with Audie Murphy and Bill Mauldin (TIME...
...Badge of Courage, starring Audie Murphy and Bill Mauldin, is at the Loew's State and Orpheum...
...Murphy's comrade in arms, Cartoonist Bill Mauldin plays a young soldier who takes everything with deadly seriousness-from a fistfight in which not a blow is struck to the shattering moment when he and Murphy overhear a general describe their regiment as worthless, just before giving the boys a pep talk and ordering them to attack. With no more continuity or plot than the battle it describes, Red Badge is mostly memorable for its tight vignettes of human confusion. It ends on an appropriately ironic note: the jubilant regiment, having driven back the Confederates, learns that its hard...
Though the movie conscientiously records many of the situations and captions of Mauldin's cartoons, it never catches the spirit of the best of his wartime sketches. Mauldin's line drawings were not only picturesque and funny; they also made a biting, authentic commentary on the lot of the miserable, unshaven, mud-caked footslogger. Up Front operates instead at the level of the comic strip, or the familiar Hollywood service comedy...