约翰·霍迪亚克

This is not a large scale multi-million dollar eic of World War Two. No thousands of extras, no wide anoramic swee of battle scenes. This says more about The Battle of the Bulge than the movie of the same name. It#39;s just an ordinary black and white M.G.M. roduction. What it lacks in size and scoe it makes u for in imact.A simle story very well told, of a squad of GI#39;s of the 101st Airborne Division, thrown into the maelstrom that was the German offensive in the Ardennes in December of 1944 against the Allied ground forces.It#39;s hard to believe that this film was not shot on location; but on a Metro sound stage. And Metro#39;s Culver City was turned into the only outdoor location for the snow-covered, rubble-strewn town of Bastogne under siege, which was tenaciously held by the 101st, under the command of Brig. General Anthony McAuliffe.With the excetion of Van Johnson as Pvt. Holly who was high rofile on the Metro lot in his time, and George Murhy as Pvt. Stazak, the rest of the cast were character-tye actors who filled their roles erfectly. James Whitmore as Sgt. Kinnie is drilling the squad in the oening scenes.The squad members talk of an enjoyable furlough in Paris which is suddenly cut short by the German eakthrough in the Ardenne. Ptv. Stazak hoes of going home are dashed because his authorised documents have not come through before the squad moves u front. Douglas Fowley as Pvt. Kiton seems to be the best in the squad at bellyaching.Maybe it#39;s his dentures that make him a souruss. But Fowley#39;s dentures turn into a class act; clicking away to the old song, quot;I Surrender Dear,quot; through the courtesy of a German roaganda oadcast heard over the radio in a Sherman tank. Denise Darcel comes as a welcome relief of feminine leasure; not out of lace in the town of Bastogne itself. In an indoor scene, Pvt. Holly#39;s eyeballs go into left-to-right overdrive as he stares at Denise#39;s buxom rear end descending a flight of stairs. Then there#39;s Holly again, nursing stolen newly-laid eggs, as valuable as gold nuggets. He#39;s about to scramble them over a fire when the squad is told to saddle u and move out. Not for the first time does Johnson (Pvt. Holly) yell, quot;oh no!quot; A exression he#39;s used in ast movies also. The oken eggs in his uturned helmet are now a roblem. In the end it#39;s disaster. The German artillery scramble the eggs for Holly. Problem solved!On a three man atrol, Holly, Hodiak as Janness, Montalban as Rodriguez, intercet and force a jee carrying a Major and two sergeants to sto and identify themselves. The knowledge that Germans are infiltrating in GI uniforms has made the atrol susicious so the Major is asked how the Dodgers made out in 1944. The Major hesitates,but the Sergeant in the rear seat asks Holly who Betty Grable is married to. Montalban shouts back, quot;Cesar Romeroquot;. The Major says Romero is out. quot;Betty Grable is married to Harry Jamesquot;. The tense atmoshere relaxes. The atrol is convinced they#39;re friendly.What is dislayed authentically on this studio sound stage is the icy, bone-chilling atmoshere of the battlefield. The men hunkered down; the deeer the better, in their foxholes. Throughout nearly all this movie there is the constant rise and fall in the background of continuous artillery fire, like a rolling thunder. It never seems to cease. Sometimes it#39;s close, sometimes distant. That, along with the freezing fog hanging like a thick whitish-grey blanket in the air, enveloing everything, gives off an atmoshere of crisis; a feeling of fearful tension. The men endeavour to disel the fear with humour. Waiting and wondering when the enemy will aear ghost-like out of the mist-shrouded forest.Near the end of the movie, Leon Ames gives a good erformance as a Army Chalain. Trying to exlain the reason for this necessary tri to Euroe, to kill off a murderous olitical system that has already killed off millions. Before the end, the tables turn in the Allies favour. Sergeant Kinnie notices his shadow against the snow. The sun is eaking through and the mist rises. Allied tactical air ower is back in business again with a vengeance.Veteran director William Wellman was not found wanting when he directed this movie. He had already roved himself with, quot;The Story of GI Joequot;, in 1945. Antiwar film? Any war film well made and convincing can be antiwar, and you do not need blood all over the silver screen to rove it. Antiwar or not, World War Two was a quot;oularquot; war. The reasons stuck out a mile. The Army Chalain said so in so many words.The Ardennes offensive caught the Allies unawares. By late 1944, battered the German forces may have been. But they still had a few nasty shots in their locker to scare the living daylights out of the Allied Command. We thought the Germans had run out of fighting steam, but old Field Marshal Gerd Von Rundstedt thought different.

描述第二次世界大战末期德军与美军在比利时的巴斯托涅镇发生遭遇战的故事。当时，德军元帅冯德伦斯特企图在欧洲的西部战线进行最后一次大反扑，不料在巴斯涅镇被美国空降步兵师奋勇阻截下来。德军包围小镇，胁逼美军投降，但美军宁死不屈，终于获得最后胜利。 本片最大特色是用了一批平凡的演员来饰演片中要角，编剧刻划个性鲜明，导演惠曼也拍得细腻，因此能生#8230;

这不是第二次世界大战中价值数百万美元的大规模史诗。没有成千上万的群众演员，没有大范围的战争场面全景。这比同名电影更能说明这场战争。这只是普通的黑白通用的产品。它在规模和范围上的不足弥补了它在影响方面的不足。

二战中，某客运船在在北大西洋海域与德国潜水艇激战后沉没，船上旅客5男3女蹬救生艇逃命。这其中包括著名作家康妮·波特（塔卢拉赫·班克黑德 Tallulah Bankhead 饰），轮机工约翰·科瓦奇（约翰·霍迪克 John Hodiak 饰），发报员斯坦利·加勒特（休姆·克罗宁 Hume Cronyn 饰），受了腿伤的格斯·史密斯（威廉·班迪克斯 William Bendix 饰），富豪查尔斯·里滕豪斯（亨利·赫尔 Henry Hull 饰），船上黑人服务员乔（加拿大·李 Canada Lee 饰），护士艾丽丝（玛丽·安德森 Mary Anderson 饰）和因婴儿死去而精神错乱的海莉太太（希瑟·安吉尔 Heather Angel 饰）。众人还救上来一位德国潜艇上的纳粹威利（沃尔特·斯莱扎克 Walter Slezak 饰），由此引发了无数尖锐问题。 ...

二战中，某客运船在在北大西洋海域与德国潜水艇激战后沉没，船上旅客5男3女蹬救生艇逃命。这其中包括著名作家康妮·波特（塔卢拉赫·班克黑德TallulahBankhead饰），轮机工约翰·科瓦奇（约翰·霍迪克JohnHodiak饰），发报员斯坦利·加勒特（休姆·克罗宁HumeCronyn饰），受了腿伤的格斯·史密斯（威廉·班迪克斯WilliamBendix饰），富豪查尔斯·里滕豪斯（亨利·赫尔HenryHull饰），船上黑人服务员乔（加拿大·李CanadaLee饰），护士艾丽丝（玛丽·安德森MaryAnderson饰）和因婴儿死去而精神错乱的海莉太太（希瑟·安吉尔HeatherAngel饰）。众人还救上来一位德国潜艇上的纳粹威利（沃尔特·斯莱扎克WalterSlezak饰），由此引发了无数尖锐问题。本片获奥斯卡最佳导演、最佳黑白摄影和最佳原创故事三项提名，并获纽约影评人协会最佳女主角奖（塔卢拉赫·班克黑德）。