
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Cornel Wilde produced directed & starred in this sincere hard-edged look at World War II that doesn&t flinch from the horrors of battle The action takes place during a single American campaign to take an island held by the Japanese The usual cliche characters are replaced by believable portrayals such as the captain (Wilde) who loves his wife but hates the war the sergeant (Rip Torn) who gets sadistic pleasure out of battle the minister&s son (Patrick Wolfe) who keeps remembering the girl he left back home & the Southern illiterate (Burr De Benning) who finds a place for himself in the Marines A harsh unromanticised look at the Big One over thirty years before Steven Spielberg did it with Saving Private Ryan