Rent Battleground (1949)
3.8 of 5 from 55 ratings
1h 54min
- General info
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- Synopsis:
- December 1944. A civilian victim of the Battle of Bastogne scrounges through garbage to find a scrap of food. "I don't even see those things", a war-numbed GI says. "I want to remember them!" his buddy snaps. Bastogne veteran Robert Pirosh remembers with his Oscar-winning screenplay for 'Battleground', a gripping tale of 101st Airbourne troops resisting Hitler's fierce, final counter-offensive. Directed by William A. Wellman, the superb cast includes James Whitmore as a bantam rooster of a sarge and Van Johnson as a wisecracking PFC.
- Actors:
- Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Jerome Courtland, Don Taylor, Bruce Cowling, James Whitmore, Douglas Fowley, Leon Ames, Herbert Anderson, Thomas E. Breen, Denise Darcel, Richard Jaeckel, James Arness, Scotty Beckett, Brett King, The Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division, Joel Allen
- Directors:
- William A. Wellman
- Producers:
- Dore Schary
- Narrated By:
- Frank Whitbeck
- Writers:
- Robert Pirosh
- Others:
- John Dunning, Paul C. Vogel
- Studio:
- Warner
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama
- Collections:
- 1949: That Ealing Feeling
- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 10/01/2017
- Run Time:
- 118 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Vintage Cartoon "Little Rural Riding Hood"
- Vintage Featurette "Let's Cogitate"
- Trailer
