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| The Red Badge of Courage |
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| Director: John Huston |
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Albert Band, John Huston, Stephen Crane |
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Dore Schary, Gottfried Reinhardt |
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Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin, Douglas Dick, Royal Dano, John Dierkes |
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Action & Adventure |
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| Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 |
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(NTSC ) |
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Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono |
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English, Spanish, French |
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Black and White |
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| Studio: Warner Home Video |
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DVD Region: 1 |
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NR |
| DVD Release: Feb 2003 |
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Discs: 1 (Cloud) [$19.98] |
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| Reviews: John Huston's "The Red Badge of Courage", like Orson Welles's "The Magnificent Ambersons", is a heartbreakingly beautiful film mutilated by its studio after a disastrous preview process. You can--and should--read the fascinating production history in Lillian Ross's "Picture". "Picture" is a classic--and so's the movie, even in a 69-minute reduction featuring a climactic Civil War battle that has Stephen Crane's young hero wearing his red badge of courage, then not wearing it, then wearing it again (MGM editor-in-chief Margaret Booth recut two different battles into one). Most-decorated-soldier-of-WWII Audie Murphy was chosen to star ("a gentle little killer," Huston mused); the shadow of WWII is also felt in the casting of war-front chronicler Bill Mauldin as Murphy's pal, and in Huston's own experience making his great battlefield documentary "San Pietro". The panoramas evoke Mathew Brady, and Huston's closeup framing brings a psychoanalytic intensity to the terrified young soldier's inner turmoil. "--Richard T. Jameson" |
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