Studio: Madacy Entertainment
Genre: War
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Director: Lewis Milestone
DVD Release Date: 9/24/2004
Theatrical Release Date: 12/3/1945
PublishedId: 263463
UPC: 056775006594, 089218404695, 011891970198, 777966843094, 617742115895
Plot: Harry Brown's honest, unsentimental WW2 novel A Walk in the Sun has been effectively adapted for the screen by Robert Rossen. Dana Andrews stars as Sgt. Tyne, a platoon squad leader in Italy who ends up assuming command of his platoon after a series of deaths. As they prepare to attack an isolated Nazi-held farmhouse, each of the infantymen reveals his true character as he dwells upon his background and contemplates the job at hand.
The film's effectiveness lies in the non-cliched characterizations by a carefully chosen all-male cast. Huntz Hall of East Side Kids fame is particularly good in a scene wherein he argues over whether the human body or the leaf is the most complicated natural structure. Director Lewis Milestone's use of a ballad to link the action predates
High Noon by some seven years. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.
