The Thin Red Line

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One of the cinema's great disappearing acts came to a close with the release of The Thin Red Line in late 1998. Terrence Malick, the cryptic recluse who withdrew from Hollywood visibility after the release of his visually enthralling masterpiece Days of Heaven (1978), returned to the director's chair after a 20-year coffee break. Malick's comeback vehicle is a fascinating choice: a wide-ranging adaptation of a World War II novel (filmed once before, in 1964) by James Jones. The battle for Guadalcanal Island gives Malick an opportunity to explore nothing less than the nature of life, death, God, and courage. Let that be a warning to anyone expecting a conventional war flick; Malick proves himself quite capable of mounting an exciting action sequence, but he's just as likely to meander into pure philosophical noodling--or simply let the camera contemplate the first steps of a newly birthed tropical bird, the sinister skulk of a crocodile. This is not especially an actors' movie--some faces go by so quickly they barely register--but the standouts are bold: Nick Nolte as a career-minded colonel, Elias Koteas as a deeply spiritual captain who tries to protect his men, Ben Chaplin as a G.I. haunted by lyrical memories of his wife. The backbone of the film is the ongoing discussion between a wry sergeant (Sean Penn) and an ethereal, almost holy private (newcomer Jim Caviezel). The picture's sprawl may be a result of Malick's method of "finding" a film during shooting and editing, and in some ways The Thin Red Line seems vaguely, intriguingly incomplete. Yet it casts a spell like almost nothing else of its time, and Malick's visionary images are a challenge and a signpost to the rest of his filmmaking generation. --Robert Horton

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A powerful frontline cast - including Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Woody Harrelson and George Clooney - explodes into action in this hauntingly realistic view of military and moral chaos in the Pacific during World War II.

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One of the best, but not the greatest.......2007-08-31

This film moved me when I first watched it. Now, however, I find my self fast forwarding through the more ambient parts. The actual story is timeless, but I find that the other scenes bore me over time.

If you've read the book, you might agree. If you've read Jone's entire trilogy, you'll notice much of the script is lifted from FROM HERE TO ETERNITY. Not all of the books themes, however, are represented in the film and MANY characters are combined or missing alltogether.

The music is perhaps Hans Zimmer's best. I dare to say it's the best match of music and images that I have ever seen.

It's high art, not a popcorn movie. Read the books first.

Turn on your brain--the movie's much better when you do.......2007-08-19

I am amazed by how many people don't like this because it's "too long," "doesn't have enough action," or (I love this one) "it's soooo lame." One of the many redeeming aspects of this film is how the movie does not force feed you. It doesn't barrage you with speeches, action, dramatic music, more action, action with dramatic music, and yet more hyperbolic action/music--doing all the thinking for you. If you have a short attention span, or are uncomfortable interpreting for yourself what you are watching, this movie is not for you. Go watch Saving Private Ryan, Patton, Guns of Navarone, anything but this. But if you want lucid cinematography, deep internal monologue, and spoken lines beyond "Let's get them Japs," and time to digest what you are watching, then get this movie.

It is the only war movie I would say is beautiful. There's no didactive hawk/dove preaching, chest thumping or flag waving, rather a complex portrayal of regular people, just like us, thrust into a hellish situation, and what goes on in their minds as they endure the everyday brutality of warfare.

Like a good poem that may only contain a couple dozen words, many lines and ideas in this movie demand you sit and think, to concentrate very very hard--to try to get to the marrow of the deeper meaning--something that takes lots of introspection and time.

For the people who were looking at their watches, or complaining it was too long, here's a hint: during the long sequences of silence or "inaction," there's a reason for it: something pithy has just ben served to you, or is about to be. If you still don't get it, go ahead and one-star this movie, and go get any of those other sugar-coated cookie cutter war movies that don't want you to do much thinking.

This is the best war movie I have seen.

GUADALCANAL.......2007-07-23

My uncle was at Guadalcanal as a very young Marine. He was no square. His account was very close to the tenor of this film. I am sorry for those who did not feel adequately entertained. His company were reduced from 100 to 5. The art of this film is the inference of violence vs the explicit incidence. Inference is a more powerful tool in explaining the terror of real violence. I think violence is entertaining mainly to those who have never experienced it.
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"War Turns Men Into Dogs"..............2007-07-14

...and this movie is a big, steaming pile of dog shtuff.

This movie had such potential. But it goes absolutely nowhere. A pitiful attempt at being profound, resulting only in bombast. The "finished work" is simply a swollen collage of beautifully filmed vignettes (complete with irrelevant and saccharine flashbacks) stitched together in a clumsy attempt to trick the viewer into believing that there is a point. There is none!

I can understand the concept and argument that The Thin Red Line was not intended to be a "WAR FILM". But it's not anything else either - NOTHING!! This DOG was so boring, so pointless, so morose, it inspired me to write my first ever film review in an attempt to spare others the disappointment of sitting through it!

The apologists for this celluloid sleeping pill use words like contemplative, poignant, philosophical, introspective, etc. The only thing I took away from this lugubrious piece of cinematic blathering, was utter contempt for the self-absorbed turds responsible for its production.

This film is a waste of time and clearly a product of the narcissistic Hollywood Boomer generation. Rather than honor our fathers and grandfathers who sacrificed so much to secure freedom and security for the generations to follow, it serves only to insult them.

Bought for husband, he loves it.......2007-07-12

I don't like movies about war and death but my husband does and he loves this movie and has watched it several times since I bought it.

World War II Collection (The Thin Red Line/Patton/Tora! Tora! Tora!/The Longest Day)

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ALL 4 FILMS ARE CLASSICS THAT I REALLY WANTED MAKING THIS SET A 'REEL' TREAT FOR ME!
Good package of war movies
Three Magnificent War Movies but One Appalling Fantasy
I'll tell you why...
Two bad movies for the price of five

World War II Collection (The Thin Red Line/Patton/Tora! Tora! Tora!/The Longest Day)
Starring: Martin Balsam , Sô Yamamura , Joseph Cotten , Tatsuya Mihashi , and E.G. Marshall
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Release Date: 2000-11-07

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The Thin Red Line (1998)
In recluse director Terrence Malick's 1998 comeback vehicle, the battle for Guadalcanal Island offers an opportunity to explore nothing less than the nature of life, death, God, and courage. Let that be a warning to anyone expecting a conventional war flick; Malick proves himself quite capable of mounting an exciting action sequence, but he's just as likely to meander into pure philosophical noodling. This is not especially an actors' movie, but the standouts are bold: Nick Nolte as a career-minded colonel, Elias Koteas as a deeply spiritual captain who tries to protect his men, Ben Chaplin as a G.I. haunted by lyrical memories of his wife. The backbone of the film is the ongoing discussion between a wry sergeant (Sean Penn) and an ethereal, almost holy private (newcomer Jim Caviezel). In some ways The Thin Red Line seems vaguely, intriguingly incomplete, yet it casts a spell like almost nothing else of its time, and Malick's visionary images are a challenge and a signpost to the rest of his filmmaking generation. --Robert Horton

Tora! Tora! Tora!
"Sir, there's a large formation of planes coming in from the north, 140 miles, 3 degrees east." "Yeah? Don't worry about it." This is just one of the many mishaps chronicled in Tora! Tora! Tora! The epic film shows the bombing of Pearl Harbor from both sides in the historic first American-Japanese coproduction: American director Richard Fleischer oversaw the complicated production, wrestling a sprawling story with dozens of characters into a manageable, fairly easy-to-follow film. While Tora! Tora! Tora! lacks the strong central characters that anchor the best war movies, the real star of the film is the climactic 30-minute battle, a massive feat of cinematic engineering that expertly conveys the surprise, the chaos, and the immense destruction of the attack. --Sean Axmaker

Patton
One of the greatest screen biographies ever produced, this monumental film runs nearly three hours, won seven Academy Awards, and gave George C. Scott the greatest role of his career. Scott embodies his role so fully, so convincingly, that we can't help but be drawn to and fascinated by Patton as a man who is simultaneously bound for hell and glory. Filmed on an epic scale at literally dozens of European locations, Patton does not embrace war as a noble pursuit, nor does it deny the reality of war as a breeding ground for heroes. Through the awesome achievement of Scott's performance and the film's grand ambition, Patton shows all the complexities of a man who accepted his role in life and (like Scott) played it to the hilt. --Jeff Shannon

The Longest Day
The Longest Day is Hollywood's definitive D-day movie. More modern accounts such as Saving Private Ryan are more vividly realistic, but producer Darryl F. Zanuck's epic 1962 account is the only one to attempt the daunting task of covering that fateful day from all perspectives. From the German high command and front-line officers to the French Resistance and all the key Allied participants, the screenplay by Cornelius Ryan, based on his own authoritative book, is as factually accurate as possible. The endless parade of stars (John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Robert Mitchum, Sean Connery, and Richard Burton, to name a few) makes for an uneasy mix of verisimilitude and Hollywood star-power, however, and the film falls a little flat for too much of its three-hour running time. But the set-piece battles are still spectacular, and if the landings on Omaha Beach lack the graphic gore of Private Ryan, they nonetheless show the sheer scale and audacity of the invasion. --Mark Walker

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Contains: *Thin Red Line, The *Tora! Tora! Tora! *Patton *Longest Day, The

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ALL 4 FILMS ARE CLASSICS THAT I REALLY WANTED MAKING THIS SET A 'REEL' TREAT FOR ME!.......2006-10-21

FIRST THOUGHTS: 4 EXCELLENT WAR FILMS ON DVD THEMATICALLY COMBINED INTO 1 SET

This set came to me as a gift from one of my sons about 4 years ago. He found it at Sam's Club and he paid about 30 dollars. Each one of the films included are films I really wanted so the set has been a 'reel' treat for me.

IN A NUTSHELL: SAVE $17. ON THIS SET VERSUS PURCHASING INDIVIDUAL TITLES FROM AMAZON

Within a nice outer slipcase you get 4 classic DVDs in their normal DVD packaging and wrappers. These are all releases that you can purchase seperately, but it is a little less costly to get the set. 'Patton' is a 2-DISK set that sells for $14.98 from Amazon, 'Tora Tora Tora' is $12.98, 'The Longest Day' is an edition no longer available directly from Amazon, but several Amazon sellers are offering it New from $15.98, and 'The Thin Red Line' is $9.19 directly from Amazon. It comes to over $53. plus shipping [depending on whether you get all the titles from Amazon or from vendors]. If you buy this set the shipping is free [over $25.] In essence, one can save $17. [as of today] buying this set rather than buying the individual titles, which is significant as these are not promotional DVDs and do in fact have all the 'special features' available on the individual titles.

***** THE TITLES *****

* 'THE LONGEST DAY'
* 'PATTON'
* 'THE THIN RED LINE'
* 'TORA TORA TORA'

Good package of war movies.......2005-07-20

The Longest Day is one of the best war movies ever made. And Tora 3 is a much better depiction of the attack on Pearl Harbor than that stupid Ben Affleck movie.

The Thin Red Line can be a tough one to accept. I had to watch it a few times before I liked it.

Three Magnificent War Movies but One Appalling Fantasy.......2004-02-11

It is up to the viewer to decide what is fact and what is fiction or what is utter and complete fantasy. But in my Opinion, The Longest Day, Patton and Tora Tora Tora are renowned war movies, 'The Thin Red Line' is not.

Maintaining a very slow pace throughout its three and half hours lenght, in the 'Thin Red Line' more Japanese soldiers are shown surrendering in the few hours of combat depicted than actually did the first three years of the Pacific war! (If you do not believe me, look up Tarawa, New Guinea, Marshall Islands, and Iwo Jima for example.) And of course the Americans are shown almost to last as the inhuman beasts and the Japanese as noble Samurai.

Following in the tradition of the racist epic 'Birth to a Nation', movies like the Thin Red Line and Pearl Harbor are rewriting ouf history. For example, in Pearl Harbor the Japanese are depicted as being justified in attacking, when actually the United States stopped selling the Japanese oil because they were allies with Hitler, making war on China, and had just invaded French Indochina.

I'll tell you why..........2004-02-08

To answer another reviewer's question: Why would you buy this set when you can get the individual films cheaper? You can't buy the individual films cheaper.

The version of "Patton" in this set is the 2-disc Special Edition, which is out of print except for in this set, and selling for more than the price of this entire set on auction sites.

So save some money, get the 2-disc version of Patton, and get three other great WWII films for free (essentially).

Two bad movies for the price of five.......2002-12-13

Let's face it...the Thin Red Line is the most boring war movie ever made. Tora Tora Tora is very outdated, and although it does show the attack upon Pearl Harbor from the Japanese perspective, it is very much outclassed by the newer movie, "Pearl Harbor,"

Heroes of War Collection - Soldier's Stories (Men of Honor / Courage Under Fire / Tigerland / The Thin Red Line)

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Heroes of War Collection - Soldier's Stories (Men of Honor / Courage Under Fire / Tigerland / The Thin Red Line)
Starring: Denzel Washington , Meg Ryan , Lou Diamond Phillips , Michael Moriarty , and Matt Damon
Director: Edward Zwick , George Tillman Jr. , and Terrence Malick
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One of the best, but not the greatest.......2007-08-31

Turn on your brain--the movie's much better when you do.......2007-08-19

GUADALCANAL.......2007-07-23

"War Turns Men Into Dogs"..............2007-07-14

Bought for husband, he loves it.......2007-07-12

I don't like movies about war and death but my husband does and he loves this movie and has watched it several times since I bought it.

George Clooney The Collection (One Fine Day, Solaris, Thin Red Line)

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5 minutes -- that's it.

George Clooney The Collection (One Fine Day, Solaris, Thin Red Line)
Starring: George Clooney , Natascha McElhone , Viola Davis , Jeremy Davies , and Ulrich Tukur
Director: Steven Soderbergh , Michael Hoffman , and Terrence Malick
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Release Date: 2006-06-06

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This pack contains 3 George Clooney movies in one slipcase.

Disc 1: One Fine Day Disc 2: Solaris Disc 3: Thin Red Line

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5 minutes -- that's it........2006-08-19

Don't buy this pack if you think Clooney has a major part in Thin Red Line. He's only in the film for 5 minutes. That's it. The movie is great--don't get me wrong. But this is not a "DEAL" if you're thinking Clooney Trilogy.

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One of the best, but not the greatest
Turn on your brain--the movie's much better when you do
GUADALCANAL
"War Turns Men Into Dogs".......
Bought for husband, he loves it

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Starring: Kirk Acevedo , Penelope Allen , Benjamin Green , Simon Billig , and Mark Boone Junior
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One of the best, but not the greatest.......2007-08-31

Turn on your brain--the movie's much better when you do.......2007-08-19

GUADALCANAL.......2007-07-23

"War Turns Men Into Dogs"..............2007-07-14

Bought for husband, he loves it.......2007-07-12

I don't like movies about war and death but my husband does and he loves this movie and has watched it several times since I bought it.

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The Thin Red Line between good and bad acting
Hard Hitting GI Film
Better than Malick, but still not Jones.
A lesson for directors
An underestimated film

The Thin Red Line
Starring: Keir Dullea , Jack Warden , James Philbrook , Bob Kanter , and Ray Daley (II)
Director: Andrew Marton
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Release Date: 1998-11-10

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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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The Thin Red Line between good and bad acting.......2006-07-16

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 MP-40's (9mm subguns) by both the Americans and Japanese (In the Pacific War?).

A cheaply made movie (technically speaking) for only the psychological impact. I guess I'm just used to more realism than was displayed in this movie. If you've ever seen bad acting when a soldier is getting shot - a la "Hell Is For Heroes," then you're really going to laugh at the way guys die in this movie. Ugh! I'm donating my video to the local library.

Hard Hitting GI Film.......2006-07-14

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. Films like this were willing to show that.

The combat scenes are intense for their time, but not overly graphic. Its interesting that the army is portrayed here instead of the Marines. Most Pacific war flicks usually portray the Marines versus the Japs. Here we see what the army often had to do after the Marines moved on to another island.

This is a hard hitting film for its time, with little real plot other than the strains and stresses of combat on the various characters. The 1998 re-make was probably a more vague and poetic film. Certainly its scenery is much more vivid than what you get here. Its also a lot slower moving! The music is a tense score from English composer Malcom Arnold whose work is evident in many films of this period. This is your classic B&W war film for the time it was made in. Take it or leave it!

Better than Malick, but still not Jones........2003-06-07

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, a glancing reference towards the book's homosexual themes), but in the end, there's still way too much missing for this to be a good adaptation of Jones' gorgeous, sprawling novel of the Battle of Guadalcanal. Marton focuses, as any decent adaptation would have, on the conflict between Private Doll (Keir Dullea of 2001: A Space Odyssey) and Sergeant Welsh (the omnipresent Jack Warden). Someone, however, should have mentioned to screenwriter Bernard Morton (Earth vs. the Flying Saucers... nuff said) that when you're already desperately trying to concatenate a six-hundred-page (in eight-point font) novel into just over an hour and a half, you don't write in extra confrontations between the two main characters or you lose sight of the rest of the novel (in this case, well, the four days of battle of Guadalcanal, which get about ten minutes of screen time). And yet still, in a film an hour shorter than Malick's, Marton managed to squeeze in the whole book rather than just the first half. Astounding.

Dullea, never the best of actors, well earned Noel Coward's "Keir Dullea, gone tomorrow" jibe. There were some directors, Kubrick among them, who were capable of turning Dullea's oddly featureless face to their advantage. Marton is one of them. Dullea, by virtue of his complete indistinguishability from your basic eighteen-year-old American preppy, becomes a sort of everyman, while the easily-recognizable Warden is a character all to himself. (Jones fans, take note: one of the movie's true weaknesses is that it explores Welsh's "property" ideas even less than does Malick's movie.) This in itself creates an additional tension in the movie, which in some places it sorely needs. But in the end, both Marton's and Malick's attempts to being The Thin Red Line to the screen both failed for the same reason: the source material won't stand for it. Far too much of the book is internalized and doesn't translate well to the screen, leading to isolated dramatic scenes (needless to say, Marton and Malick focused on many of the same points of high drama offered in the novel) in seas of slow, uninteresting sitting in the jungle and waiting.

Still, if you were as disgusted by Malick's heretical retelling as I was, this is worth a rental. It's not the movie it should have been (when someone finally does he Thin Red Line correctly, it will, deservedly, be as lauded as was From Here to Eternity), but it's a step farther in the right direction than Malick got. **

A lesson for directors.......2000-12-12

Watch this outdated, macho, adolescent film and then watch Malick's 1998 remake. Watch how the exact same dialogue in the exact same scenes come out corny and inflected here and then watch the sublime subtlety of the new version. Dullea and Warden are wonderful, but overall this is just melodramatic pap.

An underestimated film.......1999-12-14

I worked on this film in 1966 as camera operator for Director of photogrphy Manuel Berenguer ASC. Mr. Berenguer got an Oscar nomination for the best B/W foreing film.Been aware of the difficulties we went through in the actual filming, for which the audience is oviously not aware, and seen the final result on the screen, I'm convinced that this version from Marton is far better than the last version.Is very unfortunate that the DVD copies does not by far mach the original release print, picture and sound quality.

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In a rebroadcasted interview that originally aired March 8, 1999, Sir Ian McKellen discusses his Oscar-nominated role in "Gods and Monsters", his perspectives on acting, and his career working with some of the leading figures in films and on stage.||Then, in an interview that originally aired Jnuary 5, 1999, Nick Nolte, Oscar-nominated for "Affliction", talks about his World War Two movie "The Thin Red Line", his collaboration with Terrence Malick, and the process of filmmaking.

WWII Collection (The Thin Red Line / Patton / The Longest Day / Tora! Tora! Tora!)

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WWII Collection (The Thin Red Line / Patton / The Longest Day / Tora! Tora! Tora!)
Starring: Eddie Albert , Paul Anka , Arletty , Jean-Louis Barrault , and Richard Beymer
Director: Ken Annakin , Bernhard Wicki , and Darryl F. Zanuck
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ASIN: B0006419M8
Release Date: 2000-11-07

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Contains: *Thin Red Line, The *Tora! Tora! Tora! *Patton *Longest Day, The

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The Thin Red Line between good and bad acting
Hard Hitting GI Film
Better than Malick, but still not Jones.
A lesson for directors
An underestimated film

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Starring: Kirk Acevedo , Penelope Allen , Benjamin Green , Simon Billig , and Mark Boone Junior
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The Thin Red Line between good and bad acting.......2006-07-16

Hard Hitting GI Film.......2006-07-14

Better than Malick, but still not Jones........2003-06-07

The Thin Red Line (Andrew Marton, 1964)

A lesson for directors.......2000-12-12

An underestimated film.......1999-12-14

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