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The Thin Red Line
Directed by
Andrew Marton
1964
1h 39m
War
,
Drama
6.7
77%
64%
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In Guadalcanal during World War II, a private and his sergeant clash during the heat of battle with the Japanese.
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Cast of The Thin Red Line
Keir Dullea
Pvt. Doll
Jack Warden
First Sgt. Welsh
James Philbrook
Col. Tall
Bob Kanter
Fife
Ray Daley
Capt. Stone
Merlyn Yordan
Judy
Kieron Moore
Lt. Band
Jim Gillen
Capt. Gaff
Steve Rowland
Mazzi
Stephen Young
Stack
Mark Johnson
Medic
Jason Fithian
Pvt. Smalls
Andrew Marton
Director
Bernard Gordon
Writer
James Jones
Writer
Sidney Harmon
Producer
Philip Yordan
Producer
The Thin Red Line Ratings & Reviews
Vogue
Joan Didion
The Thin Red Line is a curiosity: a quite mediocre war movie, based upon the James Jones novel about Guadalcanal, with some of the best battle scenes -- fast, lucid, beautiful -- that I've ever seen.
TV Guide
In adapting Jones's novel for the screen, Gordon neatly compacted whole scenes from the book, occasionally causing confusion. Motivations are often touched on superficially rather than probed into to show the psychology of men at war.
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
Rob Nelson
Compared to Malick's sumptuous art film, Marton's old Line looks awfully naive, and yet it goes a great deal further in grappling with the author's touchy subtext of soldierly love.
Variety
Variety Staff
Aficionados of the action-packed war film will savor the crackling, combat-centered approach of The Thin Red Line, an explosive melodramatization of the Yank assault on Guadalcanal in World War II.
Fantastica Daily
Chuck O'Leary
Much better than the pretentious Terrence Malick film of the same name. This original Thin Red Line is a perfect companion piece to Robert Aldrich's Attack.
New York Times
Eugene Archer
Under the sincere but inadequate handling of Mr. Marton, best known for his chariot race in "Ben Hur," Ray Daley and Jack Warden are unable to explore the possibilities of these roles.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
The images of the dead in the swamp with dog tags in their mouth, was the most appalling sight in the film...
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