Translates Washington's rationale for the Korean War into a personal story about a fighter pilot facing his fears and ambivalence about the war. No wonder a New Republic review at the time criticized it for sounding too much like a VOA broadcast.
sharei take your point but ...
the 3 main characters all die in war
i dont know how that sells as a war poster
just my take that tho
to me 'bridges at toko-ri' has always been the most powerful
anti-war movie ive ever seen
yeah there's the admiral's schpheel at the ened
but by that point
if i'd possessed any inclination to enlist in the military
the scene in the sanitary ditch had more than changed my mind
I'm with onleft on this. You may be right, shoot, but I don't see it. I've never heard an Air Force recruiter win over recruits by telling them they'll be killed while fumbling around in a muddy ditch.
Not sure it's totally anti-war, but I think it's more anti war than pro war. It certainly doesn't advertise for volunteers.
JFK blown away, what more do I have to say?
I saw it more as an anti-Communist film, and that's why it's a VOA kind of propaganda piece, because it was the Soviets who created and backed the North Korean regime. And they did so intentionally to expand their influence.
It was and is a film about the hardships faced by servicemen who are fighting the expansion of communism, and how that conflict wages in all parts of the globe.
That's what the film was about.
Granted, it might have been made clearer had some scenes with Russian military advisers been apparent. But, we were trying to get along with the Russkies, so the war in the film is kept as a North Korean - UN conflict.
"War propaganda"
Yes. And in 1954, a year after the end of the Korean War, what did you expect?
North Korea attacked South Korea in 1950 not the other way around.
shareRear Admiral Tarrant (played by Fredric March) said something like "I am fighting Russian planes, Russian advisors, Russian supplies" etc but was upset that he was told to keep it under wraps. This happens to be correct. During the Korean war Stalin was sending Mig fighters and pilots, tanks, small arms and ammunition and military advisors to help communist China and North Korea and these were used to kill Americans, British and the other nationalities they were fighting -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union_in_the_Korean_War
This is the same Stalin that was given billions in lend lease aid during World War 2.
I don't think so, I think it's better than that, more thoughtful. Probably because (as I remember) it sticks close to the original novella.
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