Men in War 1957

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: The screen play by Philip Yordan and the direction of Anthony Mann are made up largely of previous war-film indications of human behavior that mean little when repeated so many times. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Time has proved its unassuming, unadorned craftsmanship - and Ryan's understanding of men pushed to the edge, never asking for an audience's sympathy, only our awareness. Read more

David Denby, New Yorker: War on the ground has rarely been done much better than this. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: One of the best of the lost patrol movies, set in Korea in 1950, bleakly anti-heroic and prefiguring Milestone's Pork Chop Hill in the bitter irony of its climactic assault on a hill. Read more

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