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The Thin Red Line
Price: $89.94 Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Fabric Type: 9786304610398
Graphics Memory Size: Black & White, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Legal Disclaimer: 6304610394
Maximum Color Depth: Simitar Ent.
Maximum Focal Length: EnglishOriginal LanguagePCM Mono
Metal Type: Simitar Ent.
Processor Count: 1
Total Firewire Ports: Simitar Ent.
Total Parallel Ports: November 10, 1998
Total S Video Out Ports: 99 minutes
Simitar Ent.
May 02, 1964
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This serious-minded but flawed effort at bringing James Jones's later World War II novel to the screen might have languished in film vaults had reclusive director Terence Malick not resurfaced with a newer version, the likely spur to this video release. This first attempt, lensed in 1964, offers glimpses of what may have attracted Malick to the project.
Jones's story focuses on two American soldiers during the Guadalcanal campaign, the newlywed draftee Private Doll (Keir Dullea) and Sergeant Welch (Jack Warden), the hardened veteran. Doll is determined to survive whatever the cost, disobeying orders if it will improve his chances; Welch is dutiful yet calculating, resorting to deliberate acts of madness to toughen up his troops by showing them war's own absurdity by example. The clash between the private and the sergeant thus becomes the core to the film, focusing on the "thin red line" between sanity and insanity and depicting how that line blurs for both protagonists.
As directed by veteran Andrew Marton (55 Days in Peking), the film is at its best during sweeping battle sequences capturing the gritty horror of hand-to-hand combat, as the Americans try to take an impregnable wall of caves held by the Japanese enemy. Less successful are portentous scenes and dialogue that underscore this evident parable with a heavy hand; there's a self-conscious art film spin that misfires.The original black-and-white Cinemascope negative shows wear and tear, and early copies betray serious problems in their optical transfers. --Sam Sutherland
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Rating:  -
The movie shown at the top of my page is THE THIN RED LINE released in 1964. Yet the 940 reviews that appear beginning on the same page are for THE THIN RED LINE that was released in 1998.
Both movies are based on the same book (James Jones's novel of the same name), but they are very different movies. Not to be confused! Although it is easy to make that mistake here because the reviews concern a different film.
Rating:  -
THIS FILM OF ONE OF THE TRULY CLASSIC WAR FILMS THAT STICKS TO THE SUBJECT UNLIKE THE RECENT NEWER VERSION WHICH EMPLOYS THR FLASHBACK TECHNIQUE OF LOTS OF NUDITY AND A FEW EXPLICIT COMBAT SCENES. THIS FILM ,ALTHOUGH IN BLACK AND WHITE WHICH YOU WILL NOT NOTICE AFTER A WHILE IS A COMPELLING DEPICTION OF THE PSYCHOLOGY OF A YOUNG SOLDIER AND HIS VIEWS ON SURVIVING COMBAT AND HIS FEARS OF DYING AND HIS MORE COLD
BLOODED SERGEANT THAT THAT ENJOYS TAUTING HIM , ESPECIALLY WITH INFORMING HIM ... Read More
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I thought I remembered this as being a good movie when I was a kid. Upon seeing this movie again, some thirty-five years later; I was wrong. The acting is terrible and the story has more than a few technical flaws that really irked me. Such as the soldiers with no grenandes hanging from their web gear (they magically appear during the battle scenes), or only one BAR in the entire company, and no one wearing bandoleers of ammo for their M-1 rifles. And one of the biggest faux's was the use of German ... Read More
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This was a film that was not affraid to be controversial. While not a great work, it was typical of war films being made about WW2 in the late 50s, early 60s. Some of these films were not affraid to look at the more gritty, nasty aspects of combat. It is significant in a lot of these films the strain often shown between commanding officers and their men. In this case the blood and guts quality of the CO versus his subordinate. The US army of the time often didn't have much time for sentimentality. ... Read More
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The Thin Red Line (Andrew Marton, 1964)
Andrew Marton (King Solomon's Mines, The Longest Day) took on James Jones' best, and biggest, novel some thirty-four years before Terence Malick did. After the desecration Malick released, I resolved I had to see Marton's version as soon as I could, because surely, nothing could possibly be worse than Malick's. I was right... but not by much.
Marton focused on some different points in The Thin Red Line than Malick did (including, surprisingly, ... Read More
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