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A Walk in the Sun Reviews

A war film that, in my opinion, lacks substance when it places plastic soldiers in the same predictable trenches in the sunlight. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 9, 2022

Overall, "A Walk in the Sun" is a unique World War II film that is both thought-provoking and compelling to watch from scene to scene.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 27, 2021

Once you get past the hokum, this is surprisingly sober and grimly realistic for its day.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 16, 2021

...a quiet mood piece, lyrical and elegiac, more than it is an action adventure. As such, it works wonderfully well.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 20, 2009

Gritty, realistic WWII yarn with strong cast directed by Lewis Milestone.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 14, 2007

Might be the best WWII film.

Full Review | Original Score: A | Jul 19, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 3, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 30, 2003

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A Walk in the Sun (1945) Lookback/Review

What better movie for Memorial Day than one that declares: Nobody dies. A Walk in The Sun is an often-overlooked World War Two movie. It has a reputation for being one of the most realistic war movies made during the war to end all wars, but the film advisor was an officer, not a foot-soldier. Directed by the man who made the classic anti-war film, All Quiet on the Western Front, it was a patriotic military movie made at the time of war that dared to explore PTSD and soldiers’ reluctance.

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On Memorial Day, you can be sure to see classic heroic war films with stars like Gary Cooper or John Wayne. Hollywood has always supported the troops. From the time of FDR’s presidency, through the Reagan years of Top Gun, the Bush era and present day pro-military films like Zero Dark Thirty, Tinseltown can be counted on to support any presidency’s military agenda. Although film makers have a long history of making anti-war and anti-military films, Hollywood was forced to make pro-war propaganda films for the most part. Directors volunteered to shoot soldiers in the best possible light. The men were shown with a quiet heroism. A Walk in the Sun tells the story of the Lee Platoon of the Texas division of the U.S. army during World War Two. It takes place in the hours from a pre-dawn landing on the beach in Salerno, Italy to noon the same day. It featured soldiers who were tired of war. Tired of being on foreign soil that wasn’t fertile enough to grow a simple apple tree. Weary to their bones as they lay siege to a strategically located farmhouse.

A Walk in the Sun isn’t an anti-war film, like Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) , directed by Jean Renoir.  It’s not an anti-military movie, like Crossfire , the film noir war drama Edward Dmytryk which explored anti-semitism in the military (The book it was based on, “The Brick Foxhole” by screenwriter and director Richard Brooks, was about the persecution of a gay soldier.) But it wasn’t the typical rah rah patriotic film that was the usual fair while the U.S. was in the middle of WWII. The men in the troops didn’t want to be there. They were dog faces. Bitter, tired, sick of killing, sick of waiting to be killed, sick of walking and walking and walking. A Walk in the Sun paints in broad strokes. It tackles post-traumatic stress disorder, battle fatigue. When the Staff Sgt. Eddie Porter breaks down and is unable to continue, he is no coward. These things happen, too many battles. Sure it’s overdone, and yeah he overreacts the shit of the scene, throwing himself face-down into unconditional surrender, but it’s alright, his men understand. He fought too many battles. He should have never been in command. He should have never had the choice of life or death for 53 men in his hands.

The “Walk” is a dangerous mission and death can come unexpected from any direction, at any time. For one soldier it comes in the middle of a word. The soldiers blanket themselves in gallow’s humor. They joke about death. They tease each other. They can be cruel. Cruel enough to shove a love letter into a wound instead of mailing it.

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Director Lewis Milestone made the classic anti-war film All Quiet on the Western Front in 1930 based on the book by Erich Maria Remarque and starred the fantastic actor Lew Ayres along with Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy and Ben Alexander. The Russian-born director won Best Director Oscars for All Quiet on the Western Front and Two Arabian Knights from 1927. He also directed The Front Page in 1931, The General Died at Dawn in 1936, Of Mice and Men in 1939, Ocean’s 11 in 1960 and Mutiny on the Bounty in 1962. A Walk in the Sun was based on the book by Harry Brown who wrote for Yank, a weekly Army magazine that came out of England. Liberty Magazine serialized the book in 1944.

Do you know who you’re fighting? They never told me.

Dana Andrews leads the platoon Staff Sgt. Bill Tyne. Andrews is best known as the detective in Laura, the 1944 film noir starring Gene Tierney and as war veteran Fred Derry in The Best Years of Our Lives from 1946. Andrews made his film debut in William Wyler’s 1940 western, The Westerner which starred Gary Cooper. Andrews played a gangster in the 1941 comedy Ball of Fire . Andrews was the lynching victim in 1943 movie The Ox-Bow Incident with Henry Fonda.

Jon Ireland made his screen debut as Private Windy, He writes letters in his head that, someday, he will write and mail. Ireland played in Wake Up and Dream and John Ford’s My Darling Clementine in 1946. He would play alongside Montgomery Clift in Howard Hawks’ 1948 film Red River . Ireland was the innocent man on the run in the 1955 film The Fast and the Furious and played the gladiator Crixus in the Stanley Kubrick classic Spartacus with with Kirk Douglas.

As Rivera, who loves his machine gun, Richard Conte personifies the rough camaraderie of men in arms. He wraps himself in the flak jacket of his mantra: “Nobody dies.” When he says “Butt me,” he’s not talking about how to kill time in a platoon without women, he just wants a cigarette from his friend, the man he wants to protect, and knows wants to protect him. He doesn’t want to be there either. They came to this beautiful country to kill those who live in this beautiful country. Herbert Richard Benedict’s Pvt. Tranella “speaks two languages, Italian and Brooklyn,” When he’s called on to translate for two Italian army deserters, he’s friendly. He likes them, begins to gossip, begins to joke.

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After being considered for the part of Don Corleone, Richard Conte was cast as Don Barzini in The Godfather. Conte made his theater debut in Moon Over Mulberry Street in 1939, the same year he made his first film Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence , where he was credited as Nicholas Conte. He changed his name when he signed on with 20th Century Fox. For Fox Conte played soldier after soldier in such films as Guadalcanal Diary in 1943 and The Purple Heart in 1944 before walking in the Italian sun. After World War II Conte played in noir films like Whirlpool with Gene Tierney and the spy movie 13 Rue Madeleine starring James Cagney in 1947. He also played in Call Northside 777, Thieves’ Highway , The Sleeping City, The Raging Tide, Highway Dragnet, The Blue Gardenia, The Big Combo and I’ll Cry Tomorrow . Conte played Edward G. Robinson’s lawyer son in House of Strangers . He starred in a Twilight Zone episode in 1959.

Known to modern audiences for his Emmy-nominated role of Izzy Mandelbaum on Seinfeld, Lloyd Bridges plays Staff Sgt. Ward. Bridges is best known as Mike Nelson the main character of the TV series Sea Hunt . Bridges was blacklisted in the 1950s after admitting to the House Un-American Activities Committee that he had been a member of the Actors’ Lab. He was cleared by the FBI only to spout profanity on live television during a 1956 appearance on The Alcoa Hour . The episode was directed by Sidney Lumet, who began his career on stage as a Dead End Kid.

Another Dead End kid, Huntz Hall, has a very small part, but, because he’s one of my favorite actors, I’m going to dwell on him. He doesn’t want to be there. He’s gotta be a draftee. He doesn’t give a shit about the trees or the land, the beautiful countryside of Italy. He just wants to go home. Hall plays a very down-to-earth caricature of New York soldiers. He’s not interested in Norman Rockwell. “Now they got pictures, so why bother drawing?” He asks his more artsy platoon partner who says. “You might was well say now they got movies, why take pictures? Why don’t they put moving pictures on the covers of magazines?” “Someday they’ll have it,” a precognitive Hall says. And now, of course we do. Hall’s Pvt. Carraway is no patriot. He’d desert in a heartbeat. He’s just looking for an excuse. “What would you give me for a spoon of beer? I’d give you my GI rifle, my GI bayonet, and even my GI pants.”

Huntz Hall gained his own infamy when the police found two pounds of marijuana buried on his property in the 1940s. Talking about it with David Letterman years later, he admitted that was what they found, hinting that he had further stash. Hall appeared on the cover of the Beatles’ 1967 classic album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Norman Lloyd plays Pvt. Archimbeau. Archimbeau is convinced that wars will never end. He predicts continuing conflicts in a never-ending march of battles. He is obsessed about a war that will happen in Tibet in the 1950s. The movie was narrated by Burgess Meredith.

Now, about the theme song, it functions as a kind of Greek chorus as a faux spiritual, but it breaks the action, has an awful beat and you can’t dance to it. It’s no “High Noon.” It’s more “Sixteen Tons.” You forgive it. Barely.

A Walk in the Sun is a classic. It’s made better by its low budget because it forces what might have been a routine war movie into a character-driven study. Yes, the characters were caricatures but they were enduring caricatures. What better movie for Memorial Day than a war movie that declares: Nobody dies.

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Kit Parker Films

A Walk in the Sun

Blu-ray: $19.99

by Michael Sandlin

June 29, 2022

Rating: 3 of 5

Director Lewis Milestone

Production Company Kit Parker Films

Genre War , Classic Film , Drama

Cast John Ireland , Dana Andrews , Lloyd Bridges

Rating Not Rated

Release Date 2022/02/08

Duration 117 minutes

In what would be possibly the first “introspective” war movie—a precursor to later philosophical war films like Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line — A Walk in the Sun , now re-released in this freshly minted Blu-ray format, was directed by Lewis Milestone. He was certainly no stranger to realistic but thoughtful portrayals of men in battle ( All Quiet on the Western Front being his first artistic directorial triumph), and A Walk in the Sun was made while World War II was still raging and released in 1945. But as gritty and realistic as the film eventually gets (for its day, anyway), the opening sequences of the featured platoon of American GIs (of the so-called Texas Division) landing in Italy in 1943 will seem hopelessly hokey to most modern audiences.

Where part of the authentic appeal of Milestone’s All Quiet was the clever absence of a distracting soundtrack, A Walk in the Sun is bookended by some cornball balladeering that sounds anachronistic and tonally awkward for the mood of the rest of the movie. The platoon is led by the all-business Sgt. Tyne (Dana Andrews) who shares command duties with Sgt. Ward (a young Lloyd Bridges), a former farmer.

Once these men get on the march, we see the director’s obvious attempt at humanizing these soldiers as something more than just your usual cannon fodder. It’s a slow-moving talky, smoky affair (everyone demanding cigarettes every few seconds—“give me a butt!”), but you do get to witness some unique personalities rise to the fore as the soldiers talk away their fears and anxieties in light, nervous chatter, or sometimes more contemplative exchanges about what all the madness around them really adds up to.

Then, of course, once they get orders to hit a German-held farmhouse, the action bit of the film begins in earnest, and the chatter of men is replaced by the chatter of opposing machine-gun fire, with the platoon sustaining some serious damage. But where All Quiet ends with an unmistakable antiwar message, A Walk in the Sun is understandably more conventional in its portrayal of warfare and the righteousness of personal sacrifice in a war that perhaps meant more than the so-called Great War fought a quarter-century earlier. Recommended for film collections with an emphasis on war, World War II, and history.

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Lewis Milestone directed this poetic, optimistic ode to the American infantryman, a ‘lone patrol’ saga that emphasizes its soldiers’ hopes and fears. The lineup of fresh, eager acting talent is remarkable: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne, John Ireland, Lloyd Bridges, Sterling Holloway, Norman Lloyd, Herbert Rudley, Richard Benedict, Huntz Hall, James Cardwell, Steve Brodie. Voiceovers and ‘ballads’ give a six-mile beachhead incursion the tone of a spiritual rumination. A beautiful full film restoration brings the image back to prime quality. The controversial filmmakers and the unusual production circumstances are covered in Alan K. Rode’s commentary. On Blu-ray + DVD from Kit Parker / MVD . 01/04/22

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A walk in the sun.

Directed by Lewis Milestone

THEY FOUGHT BEST WHEN IT WAS HOPELESS!

In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount.

Dana Andrews Richard Conte George Tyne John Ireland Lloyd Bridges Sterling Holloway Norman Lloyd Herbert Rudley Richard Benedict Huntz Hall James Cardwell George Offerman, Jr. Steve Brodie Matt Willis Chris Drake Alvin Hammer Victor Cutler Jay Norris John Kellogg Fred Carpenter Tony Dante Danny Desmond Ray Elder Jack Ellis Richard Elmore Bennett Green Robert Horton John Laurenz Billy Lord Show All… Robert Lowell Burgess Meredith Ted O'Shea Foster H. Phinney Dan Quigg Joe Roach Jerome Root Jerry Sheldon Jack Sterling Don Summers George Turner Henry Vroom

Director Director

Lewis Milestone

Producers Producers

Joseph H. Nadel Samuel Bronston Lewis Milestone

Writer Writer

Robert Rossen

Original Writer Original Writer

Harry Brown

Editor Editor

Duncan Mansfield

Cinematography Cinematography

Russell Harlan

Assistant Directors Asst. Directors

Maurie M. Suess Sam Nelson

Art Direction Art Direction

Max Bertisch

Composer Composer

Freddie Rich

Sound Sound

Corson Jowett

Costume Design Costume Design

Superior Pictures Lewis Milestone Productions

Primary Language

Spoken languages.

English Italian

Releases by Date

03 dec 1945, 25 dec 1945, 01 jan 1988, releases by country.

• Physical PG VHS
• Premiere NR
• Theatrical NR

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Review by Nitrate_Diet ★★★★ 1

Impressionistic WWII tale and a worthy addition to the Lewis Milestone war movie canon. Less pacifist than All Quiet on the Western Front , but still willing to consider soldiers' fears and insecurities. More than other genres in classical Hollywood, war movies get away with an unusual amount of narrative freedom. The story here is about a trek to a farmhouse six miles away, a scenario so simple it's forced to revolve around the characters and their existential reflections on what they're doing. A lot of the cast were becoming familiar faces in noir pictures, so in a roundabout way that also contributes to the film's sense of absurdism and dread. Screenplay is by Robert Rossen, who would become a director himself the following year.

Review by Blaze the Action Junkie ★★

A 1945 movie about events two years earlier in Italy during WW2. I'm always a bit more fascinated on takes of events that are recorded closer to the events themselves even if the productions are dated, and you don't get closer to World War 2 than with a 1945 flick. Most of the first half of this one was a bit of a tough sell for me. There's just tons of dialogue and several sequences that amounts to little more than the camera watching two soldiers talking about what they're seeing. Obviously it's dialogue from the book and a way for the production to both save cash and follow the source material, but I found these stretches incredibly boring. Fortunately…

Review by Quiller ★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Some folks consider this one of the best WWII movies ever made, but it’s never worked for me. It didn’t work for future director Samuel Fuller, either, so I’m in good company. Fuller was so upset that the man who directed All Quiet On The Western Front made something so inauthentic about a war Fuller had fought in that he wrote to Lewis Milestone to tell him so. Among Fuller’s complaints were the idea that a single platoon would be tasked with two different objectives six miles inland from a landing site with no artillery or tank support whatsoever, an unclear chain of command, and cliched characters (such as a pair of New Yorkers reminiscing about Coney Island). I’ll also…

Review by Lencho of the Apes ★★★½

Serious attempt -- and overall a pretty respectable one -- to do Grand Illusion in an American context, replacing the noblesse-oblige of WWI gentility with a WWII platoon of yanks, something of a football team in extremis. The character-building is such a central part of the film's workings that it sometimes seems that the actual war-movie/action-adventure content is sidelined in favor of filigree and innuendo... but there's plenty of action-adventure content as well. Not qquite AQOTWF, but Lewis Milestone almost does it again.

Review by PUNQ ★★★½

A Walk in the Sun (1945) provides a unique and intimate war experience. We follow a troop as they pass from battle scene to battle scene. The focus is more on the soldiers and the trauma they face than the bombs blowing up around them. Another example of Hollywood changing in the way they actors are captured.

Review by Filipe Furtado ★★★½ 1

"-You ever think you'll live to make corporal? - Baby, I just want to live long enough to make civilian."

WWII men on a mission film that benefits from a superior cast and character based script by Robert Rossen. The efforts are towards presenting the unit as a cohesive group less of fighters than men who offer a large view of US white society around the war. Some faux philosophizing dialogue may come off as phony, but the cast plays off each other beautifully and it has nice forward momentum. Lewis Milestone directs, doing his best to keep his All Quiet in Western Front humanism and the needs of the combat propaganda feature; so there are enough wasteful quality to the march but without the absurdism or desperation that would start to become more recurring in the 50s.

Review by 🇵🇱 Steve G 🐝 ★★★½

The always level-headed Samuel Fuller was reported to have written to Lewis Milestone, the director of A Walk in the Sun, to tell him that he didn't like his film at all. Which I'm all in favour of, even though I liked it, because film history is disappointingly short on director beefs.

If I'd have been writing that letter to Milestone, my focus would have been more specific.

" Dear Mr. Milestone,

I am writing to tell you that I rather enjoyed your recent motion picture, A Walk in the Sun, even though the version Sony Movies was showing was the one that looks like a piece of shit before it was recently restored. Its qualities still shone through though. I…

Review by nenad1 ★★★★

Occasionally, there is a line uttered in this movie: "Nobody dies", which is, of course, absurd as the soldiers keep dying left and right. But it works to set the tone for this (anti)war movie that may not be the best I've seen, but still a decent one. It tries to bring out the human side to the conflict and doesn't rely on the action sequences as it's primarily focused on soldiers in a war. One of the issues though is that it doesn't get close enough to the soldiers so you feel their pain, fear, and suffering. This is mainly due to the sizeable list of main characters allotted almost equal screen time. This probably worked well in the source novel, but not on the screen with the limited running time. I was also not a big fan of the narration or the ballads. Despite these limitations, well worth checking out this different war narrative.

Review by emmarosebrady ★★★★

When my dad said he was putting on a war movie from 1945 at 11:30 pm, I figured I'd fall asleep on the couch. To my surprise, I was enthralled. A Walk in the Sun has the sensibilities of a typical 40s flick -  charming, poetic, funny, wholly original, and with surprising emotional depth. A movie about WWII made/released during the war itself that still manages to step outside the propaganda genre. Nearly every war movie I've seen rips this movie off. Must be flattering. The editing was fire. John Ireland is a stunning sensitive king. Idk this is kinda my shit.

Review by Prof. Ratigan ★★★½

The restoration blu-ray is marvelous. An amazing thing to see a rough transfer on a first viewing and a restoration on the second. I don't know if I appreciated the film more, but I certainly appreciated the lack of the distraction, which freed up other observations. I love the screwball dialogue along with the dark, determined perspective. Milestone was the perfect pick for this film as the maker of All Quiet on the Western Front and a film that could have easily been a chapter out of that book. I believe I may have made the same observation last time, but A Walk in the Sun lines up very well with other tough war movies made around and within a…

Review by Gabriele Segapeli 2

"Salerno ora X" è un film di guerra stupendo realizzato da un Lewis Millestone che, a quindici anni di distanza dal suo più grande capolavoro, torna a riflettere sull'inutilità della guerra vista di fronte ad un soldato che si ritrova tra l'incudine e il martello: da una parte la noia e la paranoia di una vita fatta di privazioni e nessuno sfogo, dall'altra la consapevolezza che l'arrivo di una morte casuale e brutale è sempre dietro l'angolo.

Millestone sceglie di raccontare tutto ciò con una sorta di anabasi, un vero e proprio viaggio per i suoi personaggi. Similmente ha fatto Bunuel col suo simpatico "L'illusione viaggia in Tranvai", commedia disincantata e tuttavia spiritosissima sul destino di due impiegati tramviari ribelli.

Non a caso (o forse si?) li ho abbinati nel Grindhouse! Spero che il video vi piaccia: youtu.be/E8pSEhp3B4I

Review by Christof ★★★½

A World War II movie that strives to highlight the humanity of the soldiers who are fighting, and greatly profits from a cast of recognizeable character actors, who make it easy to sympathize with everyone (and, I should add, keep all the characters apart).

In related news: Seeing Sterling Holloway in a uniform takes some getting used to, and Lloyd Bridges never looks more like Ryan Gosling than here.

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In World War II Italy, a sergeant assumes command of his platoon after a series of deaths, and as they prepare to attack an isolated Nazi-held farmhouse, each of the infantrymen reveals his true character as he dwells upon his background and contemplates the job at hand.

One of the better films to emerge from the final days of WWII, A WALK IN THE SUN is the story of one infantry platoon, covering one morning, from the time they hit the beach at Salerno until they reach and capture their objective, a farmhouse six miles inland. Before they even get ashore things begin to go badly, and the green lieutenant in command is killed. A sergeant takes over for a time, but the stress proves too great and he cracks. The men encounter a German armored car for which they set up an ambush, raining it with grenades, then continue on their mission with natural leader Sgt. Tyne (Dana Andrews) now in command. Eventually, the soldiers reach their objective, but the situation appears suicidal and Sgt. Tyne must devise some way to complete the mission with a minimum loss of life. Throughout the film, as it follows the men in battle, the soundtrack picks up their chatty conversations and private thoughts. They think about their place in the great scheme of the war, about their fear of being killed, and about the hard, dirty, tedious, and dangerous job of being a front-line foot soldier. A languorous sense of resignation holds sway over all: weary, hard-bitten, and somewhat cynical, they are there to do a job, and although they don't even understand what part they play in the big picture, they do it anyway, even at the cost of their lives. Although director Lewis Milestone seemed to have put the pacifism of his earlier ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT on hold for the duration of WWII, A WALK IN THE SUN mostly avoids the patriotic posing and outright racism (indeed, the enemy is never given a face here) of his THE PURPLE HEART from the year before and instead concentrates on the rugged day-to-day existence of the common foot soldier. While the film is consistently engaging, some of the narrative devices Milestone employs, such as the voice-over narration and the occasional off-screen singing of a somewhat sappy folk song dedicated to foot soldiers, now seem more of an intrusion on the visuals than a complement.

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A Walk In The Sun is one of the most underrated war movies of its era. Saving Private Ryan has become one of the defining movies set during World War 2, with its brutal battle sequences underlining the horrors of the conflict. That's not to say there hadn't been great movies about the conflict before then, ranging from The Longest Day to The Dirty Dozen , but Saving Private Ryan would prove to be a major influence on future depictions of World War 2, including Hacksaw Ridge and Enemy At The Gates .

A Walk In The Sun from 1945 was released the same year World War 2 came to an end and is based on the novel of the same name by Harry Brown. It was actually actor Burgess Meredith ( Rocky ) who got the project moving after convincing a producer to adapt Brown's book, and while Meredith doesn't appear in A Walk In The Sun he would serve as the uncredited narrator. The movie follows a platoon of soldiers who land in Italy and have to fight their way through hostile territory and face many casualties along the way.

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A Walk In The Sun was helmed by Lewis Milestone, who had a varied career which includes directing anti-war classic All Quiet On The Western Front   and the original Ocean's 11 starring Frank Sinatra. A Walk In The Sun was unique for war pictures made during this time in that it took a more grounded approach to how it depicted soldiers. The men of the platoon are all tired, scared and exhausted from the conflict. A Walk In The Sun was also produced on a modest budget, so in place of action setpieces, the focus is squarely on the characters with some battles thrown in.

A Walk In The Sun featured no big name actors like John Wayne or Clark Gable, which makes the soldiers feel all the more authentic. There are no inspiring speeches about the nature of war, and instead, there's just naturalistic - and even downright inane - chatter between fighting men worn down by endless fighting and knowing they could die at any moment. There's not to say there aren't tragic sacrifices but the movie never preaches and instead follows the platoon as they weather another day of fighting.

A Walk In The Sun is a tense and humanistic war film, and it's grounded take on the subject feels like it would later inspire films like Platoon or even Saving Private Ryan itself, and remains one of the most underrated war movies of its era.

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A Walk in the Sun is a World War II war film released in 1945, based on the novel by Harry Brown, who was a writer for Yank, the Army Weekly based in England. The book was serialized in Liberty Magazine in October 1944. The film was directed by Lewis Milestone, stars Dana Andrews and features Richard Conte, George Tyne, John Ireland, Lloyd Bridges, Sterling Holloway, Norman Lloyd, Herbert Rudley and Richard Benedict, with narration by Burgess Meredith.

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Opening as it does with the cover of its source material, A Walk in The Sun makes itself out to be a bit grand and simultaneously undermines a certain amount of its ethos as a gritty war picture. Is it a fallacy to think a book can never capture all the textures of life? Does the same hold true with film? I’m not sure.

Regardless, the story is set in 1943 in Salerno, and, keeping with this novelistic form, an all-knowing narrator (voicework provided by Burgess Meredith) gives a brief word on each of the soldiers who will walk through the frames of the film. Some of them are quite familiar.

The real opening of the action feels a bit like further delay tactics. We are on the loading dock of a troop transport. The side has yet to go down, and the assault has not started. We are forced to wait in this pervasive dourness fashioned for the soldiers out of the cinematic mise en scene.

It’s our first indication of what this film will be about, and yet it concerns itself with the interims and the in-between-times when men wait for what’s next. The nervous chatter of the men matches the nervous new sergeant who is meant to lead them. Already we have some internal conflict with everyone unsure of what is ahead.

It feels a bit like D-Day, but this is Italy. Instead of meeting steep opposition, they take the beach relatively easily, entrenching themselves and waiting. Their most mettlesome member (Dana Andrews) never said a truer word when he notes, “you can’t fight a vacuum.” All there is to do, for the time being, is dig in.

Their subsequent mission is to blow up a bridge and take a farmhouse. Simple enough. For the conventions of a movie narrative, it makes following the action lines quite efficient. Except, A Walk in The Sun is rarely about its objective, until it finally is. In other words, it takes so many meandering trails and paths, riding conversations to the eventual outcomes.

Robert Rossen’s script is probably too self-aware and witty for a fox hole, but this is Hollywood, after all. At any rate, it ably captures the nervous ticks — the repetitions making up human speech patterns. We have catchphrases. Norman Lloyd comes to mind (“You guys kill me”) as the company’s wry misanthrope, observing the world around him, drolling on about some future battle in Tibet to end all wars.

A jocular Richard Conte seems to relish the chance to run off his mouth as the talkative Italian-American, Private Rivera, always up for razzing his buddy and touting his own exploits as a gunner. There’s the ubiquitous nature of cigarettes or “butts” on the warpath, looking particularly anachronistic in the hands of a G.I. played by Sterling Holloway. Lloyd Bridges is one of the staff sergeants and an imposing fellow but the real center, equal parts cynical and indomitable, is Andrews as Sergeant Tyne.

Of course, in the army, it’s not always the most capable soldiers who are calling the shots. Between wounded superiors and casualties, this mantle falls on Sergeant Eddie Porter (Herbert Rudley), an indecisive brain with little practical military experience. The prevailing question remains, is he going to crack under pressure?

Certainly, a lot happens in the ensuing scenes, however, what feels most pertinent are the aforementioned lulls because a majority of our time is spent passing time with the soldiers. In these interludes, the narrative is intercut with song and score while being lent an introspective edge thanks to Meredith’s constant omniscient input. Here again, is this trace of self-importance cropping up.

However, A Walk in The Sun settles into something genuinely compelling as we realize we are getting the alternate portrait of war. Lewis Milestone chooses the theatrical nature of all the G.I.s crammed together in the frame just as his lateral shots capture the minimal action setpieces at their most dynamic.

We observe the shades of insubordination and passive aggression in the chain of command, a result of the lack of confidence in superiors. This is further compounded by lapses in judgment and real-world miscues, like forgetting your only pair of field glasses back down the road. It’s not so much atmospheric or authentic as it gives a sense of the personal truths of war. It brings the war picture down to ground-level, to its most intimate and idiosyncratic. In other words, it’s the epitome of human.

They must leave their wounded along the road to be picked up later. The sound of planes overhead is an infantryman’s worst nightmare. And still, they bide their time. Each man’s mind becomes distracted by anything but the war. They reminisce about Norman Rockwell’s paintings and the future of the covers of Time magazine.

Maybe it’s someone recalling their favorite records from Russ Colombo or Bing Crosby. The fat life would be getting The Andrew Sisters autographs and playing music all day long. For his part, Sergeant Ward, a farmer by trade, can’t stop thinking of nice, juicy apples, nowhere to be found in an arid environment like Italy.

During one telling interaction between an Italian-American soldier and two native Italians straggling through the countryside, I couldn’t help thinking this would have never happened with Japanese-Americans in Japan. In fact, the irony is that the all-Nisei 442nd Unit was also stationed in Italy on their way to rescuing The Lost Battalion in 1944.

There might be a single instance of heightened conflict in A Walk in The Sun ; it’s when they come upon an Axis armored car and proceed to blow it up. But these types of moments are dealt with quickly, and the film sinks back into tentative homeostasis.

We can easily condense the narrative by jumping to the final push in realizing their mission. It’s relatively straightforward. We know what they need to accomplish, but the execution and the synchronization are key. It feels unnecessary to expound upon the results in great length. It’s about what you’d expect from an all-out ground assault. Of course, there’s a cost.

More intriguing is a fabled backstory to A Walk in The Sun . Fresh off his own military service and already a prolific journalist and screenwriter in his own right, Sam Fuller brazenly lambasted Milestones’ picture for its fictions even as he praised the earlier All Quiet All The Western Front . Because it is true the film from 1930 is a crowning achievement in pacifist cinema and a tour de force for the director.

Certainly, juxtaposing the final images alone, All Quiet on The Western Front goes out unsparingly. The full brunt of the gut-punch is felt as we see how much war has ravaged humanity. Its successor does not elicit the same guttural response. Then again, to parry Fuller’s point, it might be safe to concede its primary intentions were of a different nature altogether.

It becomes even more compelling to consider a brash young Fuller’s statements in lieu of his own forays into war pictures. He had several actioners of note including The Steel Helmet, which is easy to tie to A Walk in The Sun .

This earlier film perhaps is wordier — the characters mouths are filled with plenty to go on about. However, where I feel they can be linked together is through this sense of utter disillusionment with war. These are not career soldiers driven by dreams of valor and accolades in the service of their country.

Certainly, they are human. They have these kinds of thoughts too. Most of the time it’s idle chatter. It’s the mundane moments in-between where they are just people in a soldier’s uniform. What becomes apparent are their preoccupations, fears, and foibles, cutting through their daily existence. It comes down to survival.

Again, A Walk in The Sun might be a tad verbose and a bit too manicured and manufactured for a wheeling-dealing future maverick like Fuller. What it doesn’t sell us short on is the reality of wartime conflict. It’s not a pretty or mythic business between the gods. It’s brought down to earth into all our messy human concerns.

The message it preaches implicitly feels sharply antithetical to typical propaganda pics. It lives out apathy and levity as much as bare-knuckled heroics. Somewhere in the middle of it all, we’re provided some essence of what war truly is.

3.5/5 Stars

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(director: Lewis Milestone; screenwriters: Robert Rossen/from the novel of Harry Brown; cinematographer: Russell Harlan; editor: Duncan Mansfield; music: Fredric Efrem Rich; cast: Dana Andrews (Sgt. Tyne), Richard Conte (Rivera), John Ireland (Windy), George Tyne (Friedman), Lloyd Bridges (Sgt. Ward), Sterling Holloway (McWilliams); Runtime: 117; MPAA Rating: NR; producer: Lewis Milestone; Twentieth Century-Fox; 1945)

“Might be the best WWII film.”

Reviewed by Dennis Schwartz

Lewis Milestone (“Ocean’s Eleven”/”All Quiet on the Western Front”/”The Purple Heart”) directs this bleak realistic war drama, which just might be the best WWII film. It’s adapted from Harry Brown’s novel and the literate screenplay is by Robert Rossen. It tells of an infantry platoon in 1943 that lands at night on the beach at Salerno, Italy, walks six miles during daylight, and takes out a farmhouse defended by Nazis. Ironically titled, as the walk to the farmhouse and the subsequent action was no piece of cake. The black and white film marvelously captures in an unsentimental way the banter of the grunts, their boredom and fears.

Dana Andrews is terrific as he stars as the hard-nosed Sgt. Tyne, a platoon squad leader who through a series of deaths ends up assuming command of his platoon.

The film is less concerned with plot or antiwar sentiments, as it is with honest characterizations and showing how the ordinary soldiers carries out his job in a battle zone. Richard Conte and George Tyne, two machine gunners, needle each other and trade banter as they walk to the destination. John Ireland composes letters to his sister Frances in his head, such as the letter framed during the farmhouse skirmish where he says out loud “Dear Frances, we just blew a bridge and took a farmhouse. It was so easy… so terribly easy.” Though the platoon met with casualties, Ireland made it out alive and goes on to live another day for another fight. Which just might be what it’s all about for the soldier.

REVIEWED ON 7/19/2007 GRADE: A

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“A Walk in the Sun” is a classic war film directed by Lewis Milestone, released in 1945. Set during World War II, the movie follows a platoon of American soldiers as they land on the Italian coast and make their way towards a German-held farmhouse. With its gritty portrayal of war and its emphasis on the human experience, this film stands out as an enduring piece of cinema.

The movie opens with an introduction to the various characters in the platoon, each with their unique personality and background. From the hardened Lieutenant (played by Dana Andrews) to the optimistic Private (played by Richard Conte), the audience becomes emotionally invested in each soldier’s journey. As the platoon embarks on their mission, they encounter the harsh realities of war, facing not only physical danger but also the moral dilemmas that come with it.

One of the film’s strengths lies in its realistic portrayal of war. Milestone, known for his commitment to authenticity, captures the chaos and confusion of battle in a way that immerses the audience in the experience. The use of handheld cameras and natural lighting adds to the film’s documentary-like quality, making it feel as if we are right alongside the soldiers.

The film also explores the psychological toll of war on the soldiers. Through introspective voiceovers and character interactions, we witness their fears, hopes, and struggles. This deeper exploration of the human experience adds a layer of complexity to the narrative, elevating it beyond a simple war film.

The performances in “A Walk in the Sun” are commendable. Each actor brings depth and nuance to their respective roles, creating believable and relatable characters. Dana Andrews delivers a standout performance as the Lieutenant, portraying a man burdened with responsibility and haunted by the realities of war. Richard Conte’s portrayal of the optimistic Private provides a much-needed balance, reminding us of the soldiers’ humanity amidst the chaos.

In addition to its powerful storytelling, the film also has notable technical achievements. The cinematography by Russell Harlan is exceptional, capturing the rugged beauty of the Italian countryside while also showcasing the devastation caused by war. The black-and-white visuals add to the gritty atmosphere, enhancing the film’s realism.

Despite being released over 75 years ago, “A Walk in the Sun” remains relevant today. Its exploration of the human experience in war transcends time and reminds us of the sacrifices made by soldiers. The film serves as a poignant reminder of the horrors of war and the importance of valuing human life.

1. Is “A Walk in the Sun” based on a true story? No, the film is a work of fiction. However, it is inspired by the experiences of real soldiers during World War II.

2. What is the runtime of the movie? The movie has a runtime of approximately 1 hour and 57 minutes.

3. Are there any notable awards or nominations for the film? Yes, “A Walk in the Sun” was nominated for the Palme d’Or at the 1945 Cannes Film Festival.

4. Is the film suitable for all audiences? While the film does not contain explicit violence or graphic scenes, it does depict the harsh realities of war. It is recommended for mature audiences.

5. Are there any notable quotes from the film? One memorable quote from the film is, “A man will do anything if he believes in what he’s doing.”

6. Is the film available in color? No, “A Walk in the Sun” is a black-and-white film.

7. Who composed the film’s score? The score for the film was composed by Fredric Efrem Rich.

8. Is there a sequel to “A Walk in the Sun”? No, there is no official sequel to the film.

9. Did the film receive positive reviews upon its release? Yes, the film was well-received by critics and audiences alike.

10. Does the film depict any specific historical events? While the film is set during World War II, it does not focus on any specific historical events. It aims to portray the general experiences of soldiers during the war.

11. Are there any notable directorial choices in the film? Yes, director Lewis Milestone used handheld cameras and natural lighting to create a realistic and immersive experience for the audience.

12. Are there any special features included in the DVD release of the film? Depending on the DVD release, there may be special features such as behind-the-scenes footage or interviews with the cast and crew.

13. Can the film be streamed online? Yes, “A Walk in the Sun” is available for streaming on various platforms, including Amazon Prime and YouTube.

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A walk in the sun.

US Release Date: 11-03-1945

Directed by: Lewis Milestone

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• Dana Andrews ,  as
• Sgt. Bill Tyne
• Richard Conte ,  as
• Pvt. Rivera
• George Tyne ,  as
• Pvt. Friedman
• John Ireland ,  as
• Pvt. Windy Craven
• Lloyd Bridges ,  as
• Sterling Holloway ,  as
• Norman Lloyd ,  as
• Pvt. Archimbeau
• Herbert Rudley as
• Sgt. Eddie Porter

Dana Andrews and Sterling Holloway in A Walk in the Sun .

A Walk in the Sun is based on a novel and the first thing you will notice in watching this movie is that the writers of this movie and book loved dialogue. From start to finish no one stops yackking the entire film. Before the action, during the action and after the action someone is constantly talking.

The movie tells the story of a 1943 beach landing in Italy during World War II. It follows a platoon of American soldiers from the beach, through the Italian country side and finally to an assault on a German held farm house. Between all of the talking there are out breaks of fighting. Men constantly get killed and the wounded left behind. The movie takes the action very seriously. There are no Hollywood heroics. The entire point of this film is to show just so how average and normal these men are.

The movie accomplishes that through having the characters constantly talk to each other. They talk about their futures and pasts. They complain about the military. They talk about trivial matters, “I have all Bing Crosby's records except his new one." One soldier says. They joke, such as when one soldier says that someone is coming another says, “Maybe it's Marlene Dietrich. Does it have legs?" They refer to sex. A Sargent goes on about apples and how he would “like to be cuttin one open now and licking that juice off the knife." A nearby soldier says, “Cut it out sarge now you got me thinking of something juicy." A third soldier just giggles at the comment. They discuss politics. One soldier tells another one that he is, “a traveling salesman selling Democracy to the natives." They also speak very honestly. A couple of soldiers see, from a distance, some of their platoon get shot and killed. “I hope it ain't anybody I like." One of them says.

The cast is led by Dana Andrews. He is a good actor but had the unfortunate luck to never appear in a truly classic film. Also in the cast is Lloyd Bridges who went on to greater television and movie success. Sterling Holloway may not sound real familiar by name but I bet you have heard his voice many times. He went on to do the voice of Winnie The Pooh in the Walt Disney movies. Also in the cast is an actor names John Ireland. I have no idea who he is but the entire film I was struck but how much he looked like Jean-Claude Van Damme.

A Walk in the Sun is one of the best World War II movies to honestly depict how the soldiers probably acted. You see them scared. You see them worried. You see some of them fall apart under the stress. The only thing unrealistic is that they never show blood. They refer to gore and horrible wounds but it is never shown. The problem with A Walk in the Sun is that so much of the dialogue is superfluous. The dialogue needed some arc to it. It is mildly interesting to hear two soldier debate which is better; a photograph or a painting by Norman Rockwell, but it does nothing for the plot.

A song is sung, narratively, throughout several parts of the movie. It is meant to be inspiring but is just annoying. There is enough words spoken in this movie to have a song added. The only actual dialogue that seems to arc in the story is when John Ireland writes letters to his sister out loud. At the beginning of the movie he is with the rest of the platoon on a landing craft heading for the beach. He sarcastically says, “Dear Frances, I am writing you this letter relaxing on the deck of a luxury liner. On shore the natives have evidently just spotted us and are getting up a reception - fireworks, music and that sort of stuff. Ha. The musicians in our own band have also struck up a little tune. Ha ha" At the end of the movie he continues the sarcastic letter, “Dear Frances, we just blew a bridge and took a farmhouse. It was so easy... so terribly easy." His sarcasm is the best narration and they should have increased his part and edited some of the other pointless conversations.

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As I recall this is the film where after using all their bazooka ammo to repel enemy armour, the platoon is seen walking past a burning PzKpfw I. Quite the tank I would say. The attack on the objective is a classic though.

Hi Pat. My recollection of the German matèriel used in the film is a bit vague now. I seem to recall some vehicles that looked like faked up SdKfz 222 armoured cars. I don't recall seeing any genuine German vehicles. I'll have to watch the film again sometime! I'll keep my eyes peeled...

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It’s something to really consider, given the fact that even the cast members acknowledged that the show was stuffed with beautiful people whose bodies were being shown off in the SoCal sun. So it’s fascinating to see what the intervening decades have wrought. Of course, in the case of Eggert, she has been through some intense health problems; the fact that she appears bald during some interview segments, meaning she was in the midst of cancer treatment, shows just how committed she was to helping tell the story of Baywatch and its success.

The opening montage promises that the cast members will talk about all of the ups and the downs of being on such a popular show, and we’re sure there may be tidbits of insight or eyebrow-raising information that might slip in. But more than anything, the docuseries feels more like an exercise in reminiscence than anything else.

Sex and Skin: Lots of Baywatch ‘s lingering T&A shots, as well as the signature slow-motion running scenes. Parting Shot: A preview of the second episode, which centers around Pamela Anderson. Sleeper Star: Eggert is the sleeper here, for the reason we stated above, though we’re fascinated by Erika Eleniak’s tattoos. And we loved seeing Jeremy Jackson’s Knight Rider collection from when he was a kid; he actually beat out Leonardo DiCaprio (!) to play Hasselhoff’s son on the show.

Most Pilot-y Line: Why does ABC News need to bring in Chris Connelly every time they do a show about pop culture? I know he works for them, but don’t they have any other experts? Ones that aren’t used to talking in soundbites?

Our Call: STREAM IT. After Baywatch: Moment In The Sun is a fond look back at the Baywatch phenomenon of the ’90s, with all of the good and not-so-good moments explored by the producers and cast.

Joel Keller ( @joelkeller ) writes about food, entertainment, parenting and tech, but he doesn’t kid himself: he’s a TV junkie. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Salon, RollingStone.com , VanityFair.com , Fast Company and elsewhere.

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Skowhegan Craft Brew Festival set for Saturday

The celebration of local beer and other products is expected to draw people from around the country to sample beverages from 24 Maine producers.

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A crowd gathers Sept. 2, 2023, along the Kennebec River, behind Water Street businesses, for the Skowhegan Craft Brew Festival in downtown Skowhegan. Morning Sentinel file

SKOWHEGAN — Beer lovers from around the country are expected to head to Skowhegan on Saturday for the town’s annual Labor Day weekend brew festival.

The Skowhegan Craft Brew Festival is set to feature more than 100 Maine-made craft beers, wines, ciders and spirits from 24 beverage producers, along with local food vendors and four musical acts, according to an announcement from the event’s organizer, the nonprofit organization Main Street Skowhegan.

The festival, which began in 2016, is expected to draw people from Maine, 13 other states and Canada, according to the announcement. So far, people from as far away from Texas, Arizona and Nevada have bought tickets, the organization said.

“We’re thrilled to draw people from near and far to Skowhegan for our annual brew festival,” Kristina Cannon, president and CEO of Main Street Skowhegan, said in the statement. “Not only do events showcase our growing community and all that we have to offer visitors, but they also bring people to town who spend money at our locally owned businesses. Brew fest, in particular, brings people back again and again to our community.”

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Tickets are required to attend the brew festival, and can be purchased online at skowhegancraftbrewfest.com . A $50 general admission ticket includes unlimited beverage samples from 3 to 7 p.m. and a souvenir tasting glass. “Designated driver” tickets for those who do not wish to drink alcohol are $10.

Ticket prices increase by $5 the day of the festival, so organizers suggest buying tickets by 6 p.m. Friday. Advertisement

A “VIP hour” at 2 p.m., featuring free food samples, other goodies and live entertainment, is sold out.

The brew festival is to be held along the Kennebec River in downtown Skowhegan, where the event moved last year from its previous location on Water Street .

Skowhegan Craft Brew Festival draws hundreds of beer drinkers to new location

Organizers said last year that the move was intended to help promote ongoing economic revitalization efforts along the town’s waterfront, including the planned River Park. Other events, such as the annual River Fest in August , are intended to achieve that goal, too.

With a contractor on board and the permitting process in its final stages, construction of the in-river whitewater park portion of the overall development is expected to begin in spring 2025 , Cannon said recently.

Construction of Skowhegan whitewater River Park delayed until 2025

Main Street Skowhegan uses proceeds from the brew festival to support its ongoing economic development efforts, according to organizers. The event is sponsored by more than a dozen local businesses and organizations.

The festival is expected to take place no matter the weather. As of Thursday, the National Weather Service was predicting mostly cloudy skies in Skowhegan on Saturday, with high temperatures in the mid-70s, and a 50% chance of rain showers after 2 p.m.

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