Battle Circus
Major Jed Webbe is a brilliant, hard-bitten Army surgeon with a weakness for women and strong liquor.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: August 28, 2012
- Originally Released: 1953
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Humphrey Bogart & June Allyson | |
Performer: | Keenan Wynn, Robert Keith, William Campbell, Steve Forrest, Jeff Richards & Philip Ahn | |
Directed by | Richard Brooks | |
Edited by | George Boemler | |
Screenwriting by | Richard Brooks | |
Composition by | Lennie Hayton | |
Cinematography by | John Alton | |
Art Direction by | Cedric Gibbons & James Basevi | |
Produced by | Pandro S. Berman |
Entertainment Reviews:
26%
AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 83
Rating: 3/5 --
An absorbing, often tingling background of a mobile Army surgical hospital at the Korean front. Unfortunately for the general pace and impact, considerable time is allotted to a dawdling and familiar personal drama.
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New York Times
Rating: 2/4 --
Singularly undistinguished except for Bogart's presence.
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TV Guide
A war story that has everything but a plot.
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Associated Press
Rating: C+ --
Though not one of Bogart's strongest, this serviceable feature is one of few war (Korea) films in which he wears uniform, and his only MGM picture, co-starring with that studio's reliable performer, June Allyson.
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Description by OLDIES.com:
Long before M*A*S*H, there was Battle Circus. Made during the Korean War, this tribute to the indomitable human spirit takes an authentic, almost documentary-like look at the nurses and doctors who operated in the battlefront Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals. Major Jed Webbe (Humphrey Bogart) is a brilliant, hard-bitten Army surgeon with a weakness for women and strong liquor. Fresh from the states arrives Lt. Ruth McCara (June Allyson), a naive young nurse ready to save the world. The story of their love and heroism, told against the grimly realistic background of pounding artillery and deadly ambushes, forms the core of the film.
The title Battle Circus comes from the way the mobile field units can strike their tents, move to a new battle area, then set them up again like circus roustabouts in nothing flat. And, like circus daredevils, these heroes risk life and death on a daily basis.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 15,143
- UPC: 883316616970
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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