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Synopsis: In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to blow up a bridge next to a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount. Unusually realistic picture of war as long quiet stretches of talk, punctuated by sharp, random bursts of violent action whose relevance to the big picture is often unknown to the soldiers.
Genre: Drama, War
Director(s): Lewis Milestone
Actors: Dana Andrews, Richard Conte, George Tyne, John Ireland
  Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award. Another 2 wins.
 
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1945
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I'm feeling a little sick

and a little dizzy.

Who doesn't?

It's 45 seconds to go.

45 seconds before Rivera opens up.

Fix bayonets. Fix bayonets.

Sick and dizzy.

Hey, Arch.

Good.

Five. Six. Seven. Eight.

Nine. Ten. Eleven. Twelve.

Thirteen.

Fourteen. Fifteen.

Either those kraut gunners are dead

or they're just playing with us.

It's deserted. Absolutely deserted.

Let's wait till they catch up.

Another second

we'll blow it to kingdom come.

What are you laughing at?

It's so funny. We're going

to blow up the German bridge.

I feel just like a little boy

at Halloween,

stealing the parson's cake.

Come on.

'Nothing slower than crawling.

Nothing in the world.'

'How long would it take

to crawl around the world?'

'100 years? 1000 years?'

'Nobody dies.'

'Nobody dies.'

'We've come a long way.'

'Long six miles.'

'Six miles closer

to San Francisco, Hoskins.'

'Six miles closer to Joplin, Mack.'

'Six miles closer to Saint Paul,

Tinker.'

'It's a long way.'

'It's the shortest way home.'

'The only way home for

all the decent guys in the world.'

'It all adds up.'

'Nobody dies.'

'My head's spinning.'

'Everything's spinning.'

That house.

Field.

Sky.

TIBET!!!

Tibet...

The Kraut's stopped.

Blew enough loving lead

into that thing to sink it!

No wonder it's stopped.

You sure did!

They didn't find Baby.

- No. They didn't find Baby.

Dear Frances,

we just blew a bridge and took

a farmhouse.

It was so easy.

So terribly easy.

# It was just a little walk

in the warm Italian sun

# But it wasn't an easy thing

# And poets are writing the tale

of that fight

# And songs for children to sing

# Let them sing of the men

# Of a fighting platoon

# Let them sing of the job

they've done

# How they came across the sea

# To sunny Italy

# And took a little walk in the sun

# It's that walk that leads down... #

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Robert Rossen

Robert Rossen (March 16, 1908 – February 18, 1966) was an American screenwriter, film director, and producer whose film career spanned almost three decades. His 1949 film All the King's Men won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actress, while Rossen was nominated for an Oscar as Best Director. He won the Golden Globe for Best Director and the film won the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture. In 1961 he directed The Hustler, which was nominated for nine Oscars and won two. After directing and writing for the stage in New York, Rossen moved to Hollywood in 1937. There he worked as a screenwriter for Warner Bros. until 1941, and then interrupted his career to serve until 1944 as the chairman of the Hollywood Writers Mobilization, a body to organize writers for the effort in World War II. In 1945 he joined a picket line against Warner Bros. After making one film for Hal Wallis's newly formed production company, Rossen made one for Columbia Pictures, another for Wallis and most of his later films for his own companies, usually in collaboration with Columbia. Rossen was a member of the American Communist Party from 1937 to about 1947, and believed the Party was "dedicated to social causes of the sort that we as poor Jews from New York were interested in."He ended all relations with the Party in 1949. Rossen was twice called before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), in 1951 and in 1953. He exercised his Fifth Amendment rights at his first appearance, refusing to state whether he had ever been a Communist. As a result, he found himself blacklisted by Hollywood studios as well as unable to renew his passport. At his second appearance he named 57 people as current or former Communists and his blacklisting ended. In order to repair finances he produced his next film, Mambo, in Italy in 1954. While The Hustler in 1961 was a great success, conflicts on the set of Lilith so disillusioned him that it was his last film. more…

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