Battle Cry

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Battle Cry ★★★ 1955

A group of U.S. Marines train, romance, and enter battle in WWII. But it takes 'em a while to do it. Walsh's film focuses on the psychology of training men to fight, and to wait for the chance. Uris's script (from his own novel) also spends an inordinate amount of time on the love lives of the soldiers. 169m/C VHS, DVD . Van Heflin, Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, Tab Hunter, Dorothy Malone, Anne Francis, James Whitmore, Raymond Massey, William Campbell, John Lupton, L.Q. Jones, Perry Lopez, Fess Parker, Jonas Applegarth, Tommy Cook, Felix Noriego, Nancy Olson, Susan Morrow, Carleton Young, Rhys Williams, Gregory Walcott, Frank Ferguson, Sarah Selby, Willis Bouchey; D: Raoul Walsh; W: Leon Uris; C: Sid Hickox; M: Max Steiner.

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