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Battleground

1949

Action / Drama / History / War

Battleground

1949

Action / Drama / History / War

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78% TOMATOMETER · 9 reviews

82% AUDIENCE · 2.5K ratings

7.4/10 · 8.7K

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Plot summary

Members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division are fighting for their country amidst the rugged terrain of Bastogne, Belgium, in December 1944. Holley and his American compatriots have already seen one of their own, Roderigues, perish under enemy fire. The men try to rebuff another series of Nazi attacks, but what they really need is a change in the weather. Without clear skies, they'll never get the air support they need.

Director

William A. Wellman

Top cast

Jean Del Val as French Peasant Man

Douglas Fowley as 'Kipp' Kippton

Ricardo Montalban as Roderigues

Otto Reichow as German Platoon Leader

Tech specs

720p.BLU 1080p.BLU

828.56 MB

988*720

English 2.0

TV-PG

Subtitles

23.976 fps

1 hr 58 min

Seeds 1

1.76 GB

1472*1072

English 2.0

TV-PG

Subtitles

23.976 fps

1 hr 58 min

Seeds 13

Comments 10

WarIsComing 188 days ago

And what about the taking of Berlin?...

IWillBiteYourBrain 190 days ago

Bastogne must be taken. Otherwise it will remain an «abscess» on our lines.

brooklynjoe 3096 days ago

Can't not like Montalan. He's a great actor. From this through "Space Seed" and "The Wrath of Khan."

tomi_nexus 3339 days ago

Möbius movie please!!!!!!!!

aquila44 3396 days ago

great movie, thanks

dimitris58 3574 days ago

thenks

trakr 3577 days ago

Thank you... Thank you

deepend 3579 days ago

thanks

timcooper 3579 days ago

Thanks a lot. I was beginning to get worried that you'd stopped doing classic films... Much appreciated!

elidamrimagic1977_ 3579 days ago

Thank you :-)

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8 / 10

The Battered Bastards Of Bastogne. Dedicated to the

John Chard

The Battered Bastards Of Bastogne. Dedicated to the battered bastards of Bastogne, this major player in the war film genre is directed by William Wellman &…

The Battered Bastards Of Bastogne. Dedicated to the battered bastards of Bastogne, this major player in the war film genre is directed by William Wellman & tells the story of a U.S. Army division involved in what became known as the Battle of the Bulge. The terrific cast features George Murphy, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, Van Johnson and James Whitmore. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards and won two - one for Robert Pirosh's bold and fluctuating screenplay and one for Paul Vogel's realism inducing black-and-white cinematography. Battleground is an important war film in many ways. Coming as it did at the tail end of the 40s, it was not required to be a flag waving morale booster for a country at war. Free of this burden, Wellman & Pirosh (an actual veteran of the Bastogne engagement), crafted a grunts eye view of the war. Forcing us the viewers to spend the whole of the movie with one army squad (the 101st Airborne Division), we get to know them, their fears & peccadilloes etc. Pirosh cleverly telling it as it was, scared men doing their duty. It's that we have been with them as their persona's have been laid bare, that makes the battle sequences even more potent. The jokes have stopped, the camaraderie and harmless rivalries replaced by men crying for their mothers or in some mud hole fighting for their lives. This snow covered and fog shrouded part of Belgium a bleak canvas for the harshness of war (amazingly shot on the lot). It's a stunningly structured film, one that doesn't resort to type, it subverts the many war film plot developments that are rife in genre pieces that both preceded and came post its release. The cast are uniformly strong, and all get get ample time to impact on the narrative. Something that isn't always the case with ensemble pieces. Somebody else was strong too, Producer Dore Schary, who had to fight an unconvinced Louis B. Mayer (MGM head man) to get the film made. Schary's faith in the piece was rewarded as the film became a critical darling and a box office winner. It's not hard to see why for this is a realistic and gritty look at the hardships of war and those that fought in it. Influencing many that followed it by entertaining without gusto histrionics, Battleground is still very much a template war film. 8.5/10

7 / 10

Based on the true life activities of an

CinemaSerf

Based on the true life activities of an American division shortly after the D-Day landings in the winter of 1944, this offers one of the most authentic…

Based on the true life activities of an American division shortly after the D-Day landings in the winter of 1944, this offers one of the most authentic interpretations of the wartime experiences of a dozen or so ordinary soldiers far from home, cold, hungry and fearful. They are led by “Holley” (Van Johnson) but rank means precious little really as the squad try to navigate the foggy countryside around Bastogne with little ammunition or food. Meantime, the Nazis are plotting their own major counter-offensive and with a constant barrage of sniper fire, leaflet dropping and radio broadcasts spelling doom and gloom for them, these squaddies find themselves living on their nerves more and more. What stands out with this drama is that it avoids the more rabble-rousing and jingoistic aspects of warfare cinema and concentrates more on just how tough their situation proved on even the most robust of these men. Men, it should be said, who were not professional soldiers nor were they remotely prepared - physically or psychologically - for the attritional aspects of this evolving, taut, scenario. Each man has their own way of dealing with this, and in many cases these ways are neither reliable nor consistent. They can vacillate between despair and hysteria, terror and optimism and a really effective cast deliver with authenticity. George Murphy’s “Slazak” probably does best for me, but there are plenty of others treading on these eggshells including one of his more natural contributions from Ricardo Montalban, as well as John Hodiak - but it’s really the ensemble approach to the storytelling that demonstrates just how vital teamwork and inter-reliance were for survival, for sanity and for motivation. William Wellman keeps that tension going potently with only a modicum of pyrotechnics and gunfire, but with plenty of conversation - rational, irrational and downright bizarre, as we head to no particular conclusion for these men but a piece of a jigsaw puzzle about which they didn’t really know their own part much less the bigger picture. It’s a film about the ordinary folk who fought in WWII and for two hours presents us with quite a compelling and emotional character study.

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