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Overall Rank: 17490
Average Rating: 2.4/4
# of Ratings: 5
Theatrical Release Date: 12/01/1950
Language: English
Genre: Adventure, War
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lewis Milestone
Actors: Richard Widmark, Jack Palance, Reginald Gardiner, Robert Wagner, Karl Malden, Richard Boone
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"Halls Of Montezuma" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 05/10/2012
Lewis Milestone made some great war films, but this WWII drama about a marine platoon commanded by Richard Widmark doesn't measure up to his best. The action is all smoke and noise, with little pause for any character development and the supporting cast overact their badly melodramatic, overly stereotypical roles to a rather cringeworthy degree (Jack Palance's performance in Batman is comparatively understated compared to this!) The technique of using flashbacks to contrast the soldier's pre-war lives is also clumsy and Widmark too often looks more like a social worker dishing out Werther's originals than a battle hardened lieutenant. The lack of humanity in the script is highlighted particularly in a scene where a tank sprays napalm on Japanese positions with no thought or mention of …
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