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Like other recent war films (Battleground, Sands of Iwo Jima), Halls of Montezuma concentrates on a single platoon, this time headed by an ex-schoolteacher (Richard Widmark) who is harried by battle-induced migraine. Unlike the others, Halls gives its characters some dimension and illusion of freshness. The characterizations of Lieut. Widmark and two insecure enlisted men (Richard Hylton, Skip Homeier), for example, are bolstered by short flashbacks to civilian life. Scripter Michael Blankfort also goes beyond lip service to the standard war-is-hell theme; his marines (including Walter Palance, Karl Maiden, Bert Freed and Richard Boone) grimly prove...
...Richard Widmark is frightening as Ray Biddle, a hood who conjures up a race riot. As an individual or a type, Biddle would seem psychopathic; instead, his role in the film is a symbolic, gathering behind one grinning mask all the virulence of Beaver Canal. In the only role of individuality, Linda Darnell is a slattern trying to escape from her slum background, who betrays and then rescues the Negro doctor (Stephen Poitier) accused of murdering Biddle's brother...
...screen's toughest blast at anti-Negro prejudice; with Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark and Linda Darnell (TIME...
...screen's toughest blast at anti-Negro prejudice; with Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark and Linda Darnell (TIME...
...screen's toughest blast at anti-Negro prejudice; with Sidney Poitier, Richard Widmark and Linda Darnell (TIME...