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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: MURPHY,AUDIE
EAN: 9780790776675
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0790776677
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 04, 2003
Running Time: 69 minutes
Sales Rank: 15036
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: March 16, 1951
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
A young man is initiated into adulthood as a Union Army recruit during the Civil War.
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: NR
Release Date: 4-FEB-2003
Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com:
John Huston's The Red Badge of Courage, like Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons, is a heartbreakingly beautiful film mutilated by its studio after a disastrous preview process. You can--and should--read the fascinating production history in Lillian Ross's Picture. Picture is a classic--and so's the movie, even in a 69-minute reduction featuring a climactic Civil War battle that has Stephen Crane's young hero wearing his red badge of courage, then not wearing it, then wearing it again (MGM editor-in-chief Margaret Booth recut two different battles into one). Most-decorated-soldier-of-WWII Audie Murphy was chosen to star ('a gentle little killer,' Huston mused); the shadow of WWII is also felt in the casting of war-front chronicler Bill Mauldin as Murphy's pal, and in Huston's own experience making his great battlefield documentary San Pietro. The panoramas evoke Mathew Brady, and Huston's closeup framing brings a psychoanalytic intensity to the terrified young soldier's inner turmoil. --Richard T. Jameson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Good even if older movie
Movie was good. It covered most of the things in the book. I will use this as a teacher for follow up to reading the novel. Fast delivery too.
Rating: - Heroism, Stephen Crane's exploration
I compared this classic story to Crane's short story, A Mystery of Heroism to ask "What defines Heroism?" Is cowardice a necessary part of courage? Does peer impact enhance or diminish heroism? Why is Heroism a burden? Juniors in high school related to this rite of passage piece. And,with Audry Murphy and Bill Mauldin, the flic connected to yet another War, WarII. Short, great for classroom.
Rating: - Nice B&W B Movie
This is a good Black and White "B" Movie. My teenage son and I watched it as a bonding exercise. he is thinking about joining the military, it gave us a lot to talk about - very good movie.
Rating:  - Different from war movies in that era
Only after watching this movie did I realize that Audie Murphy is the most decorated soldier in WWII and hence an excellent choice for portraying a war hero. This movie is unusual in two aspects.
First, the theme may not be politically correct then - the reflection of a soldier amid battles of combat. Yet it echoes well with the present sentiments about a war - whether or not it is worth fighting in the first place. Thus, this movie was different from the war movies made back in the ... Read More
Rating:  - Demerits for the entire company
Stephen Crane's "Red Badge of Courage " is a sublime psychological study of fear in the face of war, and the way one young man deals with fear -- through flight, bravado, exaggeration and finally, self-confrontation and calm determination. Though the action takes place in one of the most extroverted of possible historical settings -- the American Civil War -- the real warfare takes place in Fleming's psyche. Unfortunately, John Huston was not equal to the task of applying a visual narrative that could ... Read More
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