Mann’s Korean War film depicts in stark close-up the tension and exhaustion—both physical and moral—of battle. Robert Ryan plays a lieutenant, out of communication with headquarters, trying with his platoon to rejoin their division on a distant hill. He is forced into an uncomfortable alliance with Aldo Ray, a volatile sergeant shepherding a shell-shocked colonel. Their dwindling group creeps painstakingly through a landscape whose late-summer textures camouflage a constant enemy presence. Stopping to smell the flowers is fatal. For the resigned Ryan, “battalion doesn’t exist, regiment doesn’t exist, the USA doesn’t exist”—just these men and this nameless hill.
Part of the UCLA Festival of Preservation at BAMPFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film ticket!
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Part of the UCLA Festival of Preservation at BAMPFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film ticket!
Mann’s Korean War film depicts in stark close-up the tension and exhaustion—both physical and moral—of battle. Robert Ryan plays a lieutenant, out of communication with headquarters, trying with his platoon to rejoin their division on a distant hill. He is forced into an uncomfortable alliance with Aldo Ray, a volatile sergeant shepherding a shell-shocked colonel. Their dwindling group creeps painstakingly through a landscape whose late-summer textures camouflage a constant enemy presence. Stopping to smell the flowers is fatal. For the resigned Ryan, “battalion doesn’t exist, regiment doesn’t exist, the USA doesn’t exist”—just these men and this nameless hill.
Part of the UCLA Festival of Preservation at BAMPFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film ticket!
read more
Part of the UCLA Festival of Preservation at BAMPFA.
Free gallery admission with same-day film ticket!
show less
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