A Walk in the Sun (1945)
Directed by Lewis Milestone
In the 1943 invasion of Italy, one American platoon lands, digs in, then makes its way inland to attempt to take a fortified farmhouse, as tension and casualties mount.
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Here the film establishes the kind of group camaraderie found in other war films, most notably in one of my favorites, Lewis Milestone's 1945 classic, "A Walk in the Sun."
Like the motley crew in Lewis Milestone's A Walk in the Sun (1945), Miller's squad roam through the chaos of no man's land, bumping into anecdotes ranging from the poignant and heartstopping to the predictable and pat.
Even though this is written (with Kristy Wilson-Cairns) and directed by Sam Mendes, this movie about WWI follows a format that is probably older, but which I first saw in A Walk in the Sun (1945), directed by Lewis Milestone.
In this regard, Kubrick's slant on the events of war is more akin to Francis Coppola's "Apocalypse Now" than it is to more traditional things like "Saving Private Ryan," "The Sands of Iwo Jima," "A Walk in the Sun," or even "The Thin Red Line" or "Platoon."