Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Battleground (MGM) is a story about the Battle of the Bulge. Filmed with a sentimental, Mauldin-type humor and some standard war movie heroics, it concentrates on one squad of the 101st Airborne Division, which was enveloped near Bastogne by the surprise Nazi breakthrough of December 1944. The eight-day defense of Bastogne is gallantly manned by several of MGM's regulars (Van Johnson, John Hodiak, George Murphy, Ricardo Montalban), who were toughened up before the filming by two weeks' basic training, but who still look too full-faced for their battle-weary roles...
...took MGM four days to finish Harvard's four minutes' worth of film, but assistant director Sid Sydman said last night that studio officials had already viewed most of the Yard scenes and were "quite apply" over what they...
...Today MGM's camera unit travels to Barnstable on Cape Cod for ocean and sand dune scenes. As soon as they are completed, MGM will return to Boston briefly for several railroad station shots...
...MGM had hoped to take a Legal Medicine Department scene at the Medical School as well as finishing up two more Yard scenes. The studio will try again today...
...solve crimes through medical investigation. Simultaneously it has been pioneering the spread of skilled legal medicine as a replacement for the "layman coroner" system which still prevails in 41 states. It therefore is understandable that Med School officials were enthusiastic at the prospect of nation-wide publicity when two MGM investigators last year proposed a movie on the Legal Medicine Department...