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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faced with an original story that seemed, for movie purposes, to be nothing but fragments and figments, DeMille turned four writers loose on the job of working up a convincing script. They telescoped the Biblical account, invented some new sequences, tinkered with motivations, added characters, threw in some dancing girls...
The dialogue is a lot less convincing, though sometimes a lot more fun. Bits of it hew more or less to lines out of the Bible ("If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have answered my riddle"). But most of it is Biblical ersatz with an...
"The remembered war," says George McMillan, onetime technical sergeant in the 1st Marine Division, "is sometimes very different from the fought war." In The Old Breed, his division's remembrance book, Author McMillan lets his facts about fighting fall where they may, gives the full treatment to the asides...
But the Army came and so did the best thing that ever happened to the division: a long rest in Australia, where people get false teeth early. Australian girls couldn't believe the marines' molars were their own. "Finally, this babe with me reached over," said one marine...
Unlike men of many other U.S. outfits from Manila to Berlin, the marines took the peace in their stride: no mass meetings, no whimperings to be sent home. Proud Author McMillan tells what made "the old breed" different: "The men of the 1st Marine Division stood steady at their tasks...