Battle Cry (1955)- coming from WAC 11/14/2017 (1 Viewer)

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November release:

 

[Robert Crawford]

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BATTLE CRY (1955)
Run Time 148:00
DTS HD-Master Audio 5.1 - English; English SDH
ORIGINAL ASPECT RATIO - 2.55:1, 16 X 9 LETTERBOX
COLOR
BD 50
Special Feature: Theatrical Trailer (HD)

A guitar-picking good ol’ boy. A clean-cut all-American. A Navajo. A bookworm. A lumberjack. A slum kid. All enter Marine boot camp to be trained, hardened and ready to answer their country’s Battle Cry.

Scripted by Leon M. Uris from his own novel, directed by action master Raoul Walsh and starring a who’s who of ’50s movie stars, Battle Cry is an epic ode to World War II Marine heroism and homefront sacrifice, a saga following recruits from boot camp to a New Zealand base of operations to the war they knew would someday come their way: the bloody invasion of Saipan. Enlist now alongside the fighting men and stalwart women of Battle Cry for boisterous tenderness and gung-ho excitement.

 

[Randy Korstick]

This one I will buy. At least theres one title for me in November.

 

[Dick]

Too long and sluggish for my tastes, but certainly not an unpopular movie.

 

[skylark68]

This is one of the few classics that I've been completely baffled by. I seriously thought it was supposed to be an all out action war film before I first watched it. Definitely a misleading title! I'm sure it'll look gorgeous though on bluray.

 

[John Morgan]

This is one of the few classics that I've been completely baffled by. I seriously thought it was supposed to be an all out action war film before I first watched it. Definitely a misleading title! I'm sure it'll look gorgeous though on bluray.

It originally had more battle scenes, but pre-release cutting took care of that. The complete score is out on a 2 CD set. Most of the battle music that Max Steiner wrote and recorded was eliminated with the cutting. Too bad.

 

[Thomas T]

This really needed an upgrade as the DVD transfer left a lot to be desired. I'm not much of a fan of war movies but this one has Dorothy Malone, Anne Francis, Nancy Olson and Mona Freeman in pivotal roles. Can't go wrong there.

 

[benbess]

This is one of the few classics that I've been completely baffled by. I seriously thought it was supposed to be an all out action war film before I first watched it. Definitely a misleading title! I'm sure it'll look gorgeous though on bluray.

Some of the World War II movies, like this one, try to balance the home-front melodrama with the battle front stuff. They were seemingly trying to get both women and men into the theaters, and imho they balanced it out fairly well, except when it came to the title. Battle Cry as a title sound like an all-out war movie, but that's only about 1/3 of the actual film iirc. In any case, I plan to pick this one up at some point.

 

[Will Krupp]

Tab Hunter wearing next to nothing while caught in flagrante delicto with Dorothy Malone? I'm IN!!

 

[Richard Gallagher]

Some of the World War II movies, like this one, try to balance the home-front melodrama with the battle front stuff. They were seemingly trying to get both women and men into the theaters, and imho they balanced it out fairly well, except when it came to the title. Battle Cry as a title sound like an all-out war movie, but that's only about 1/3 of the actual film iirc. In any case, I plan to pick this one up at some point.

They weren't going to change the title because "Battle Cry" is the title of the novel the film is adapted from. The screenplay is by Leon Uris, who wrote the novel, and it's generally a faithful adaptation, although the dialogue had to be sanitized or it never would have made it into theaters in 1955.