VHS : Battleground (1949)
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starring: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Marshall Thompsondirected by: William A. Wellman
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302747218
Format: NTSC
ISBN: 630274721X
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: September 01, 1998
Running Time: 118 minutes
Sales Rank: 57463
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: January 20, 1950
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Director William Wellman (The Big Heat) offered up this 1949 treatment of the Battle of the Bulge, which won Oscars for best screenplay and best cinematography. The film concentrates on the camaraderie and the divisions between the troops as they ready for the big offensive. Told in a taut narrative, the men of the 101st, led by Van Johnson, wait out the winter in the Ardennes forest to confront the German army in what would be the last major offensive of World War II. The men are demoralized and trapped, with no hope of support from the Allies as they are forced to band together and defend their position. A classically assembled war drama that nevertheless manages to be both engrossing and entertaining, Battleground is a mainstay of the genre. --Robert Lane
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - "Why am I always volunteering for patrols?"
There were lots of war movies made during and after WWII, and many of them starred Van Johnson. Most of them chose to look at the heroic side of battle or the lives of the people at home supporting the troops. Battleground is different. It examines the 101st Airborne Division during the Battle of the Bulge, a group of men fighting to stay alive and in good humor amid death, destruction, and fear. This is a grim story and much more realistic than the typical MGM film.
The all star cast ... Read More
Rating:  - What They Did to Win the War
This film used members of the 101st Airborne Division as movie extras (the drill team). [The song "Sound Off" became a popular hit.] This story tells about the US soldiers who held the town of Bastogne in the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944. An alarm wakes the men, they will be sent up to plug the gap made by the German advance. They are warned to dress warm: two pairs of pants, etc. The soldiers are quartered in civilian homes. Then they are ordered to move up to the front lines, and clear out ... Read More
Rating: - "Battleground" is a World War 2 Classic!
This very realistic movie about the "battered bastards of Bastogne recounts the story of the 101st Airborne's "Screaming Eagles" who were surrounded by German troops during the Battle of the Bulge. It includes a superior cast including Van Johnson, James Whitmore, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, Richard Jaeckel, Marshall Thompson, James Arness, Don Taylor, and Leon Ames.
Directed by William Wellman and produced by Dore Schary, the venerable head of production at MGM, this very human and ... Read More
Rating: - battle ground movie DVD
the DVD was sent promptly and is new, a very good copy and I am very very happy with both value and shipping time. in short a good experience.
Rating: - a hero in the making
This is a warm, touching and easy to believe movie. It differs from present movies in at least three different ways.
First, Van Johnson played a soldier who got cold feet in the heat of a fierce battle and his courage emerged partly by coincidence. His comrades understood that because it was a human thing to do. Second, this movie was not anti-war. The soldiers fought for the right cause. Even on the verge of total disaster after they refused to surrender to the Germans, with no bombers ... Read More
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