Mjeteconer Just perfect...

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Philippa All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

johnlarson-91739 The movie is a fantastic movie due to the fact that they used actual information from the book in the movie. The character of Henry Fleming is very important as the entire movie is based around him. I feel as though the Character of Jim could have been more developed than he was. Also i feel as though when Henry goes off he could of had a narrative voice from the book. Overall i was very surprised with the graphics being it was a movie from the early fifties. The graphics were done very well especially when the cannons were fired it seemed as though the cannons were indeed real. The voices could have been a bit louder over the battle noises.

Spikeopath The Red Badge of Courage is directed by John Huston who also co-adapts to screenplay with Albert Band from the novel of the same name written by Stephen Crane. It stars Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin, Andy Devine, Robert Easton, Douglas Dick, Royal Dano, Arthur Hunnicutt and Tim Durant. Music is by Bronislau Kaper and cinematography by Harold Rosson. The American Civil War and Union soldiers head South to confront the Confederate army. Young Henry Fleming (Murphy) is ill prepared for the horrors of war, so when the crunch comes he retreats from the first battle he's faced with and has a life choice of either being known as a coward, or find something from within to make him strong enough to return to the front line. Nutshell History Of The Production. John Huston believed that this could have been his masterpiece, but an MGM power struggle saw the film butchered. A narration was insisted upon after poor test screenings, Huston washed his hands off the picture, while Lillian Ross produced a critically acclaimed book about the production. With no fanfare or bunting put out by the studio to promote the picture, the eventual 70 minute cut of the movie flopped as audiences didn't quite like the tonal flows of the piece. Over time, even in its truncated form of just under 70 minutes, pic has garnered praise to become something of a classic as it stands, while also being considered as a lost masterpiece due to the cut material apparently being lost forever. Beautifully photographed by Rosson, it's a film that has often been tagged as some sort of arty exercise. Yet it never once feels like it has ideas above its station, it quite simply is a very intimate and touching portrayal of Americans fighting Americans. It doesn't soft soap anything, deftly imbuing the narrative with the awfulness of the war and the effect on those wearing the uniforms. The period design is superb, the battle sequences crafted with great skill by Huston, and in Murphy the pic has a great fulcrum for youthful confusion acted with a skill that many still think he didn't have. Up close and personal, with raw emotional seeping from its pores, The Red Badge of Courage is a potent exercise in war film making. As Audie stands there at culmination of battle charge, holding in his hands the battered flags of both the Union and the Confederacy, the impact is quite something to behold. 8.5/10

PimpinAinttEasy THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE has some of the best battle scenes ever put on film. It is almost beautiful to see those explosions across the pristine American landscape in pure daylight. The film is about the nature of fear and bravery in war. It is not too big on character development, in fact, the film is only about 69 minutes long. The actions of the main character reminded me of this quote by Celine: "Laziness is almost as compelling as life. The new farce you're having to play crushes you with its banality, and all in all it takes more cowardice than courage to start all over again." The narrator could have been done away with. but this is a great John Huston film. Now i am really curious about the book by STEPHEN CRANE.(8/10)

robertguttman This is the best movie ever made about the American Civil War, and also ranks among the best ever made about war in general. That is all the more surprising since, as has been mentioned before, the studio didn't want this movie to be made at all, and the final version was drastically cut.As in "All Quiet on the Western Front", "The Red Badge of Courage" presents the viewer with a worm's-eye view of war. Almost nothing is mentioned about the "Big Picture", the reasons and aims of the war, or of the strategies pursued by the military commanders. Instead, The viewer is confronted with the war of the common infantrymen, the men who know nothing about what is happening beyond their own immediate surroundings, and even those are often obscured by the smoke and confusion of battle."The Red Badge of Courage" (a euphemism for a war wound) is the story of one such infantryman. After months of tedious drilling, he suddenly learns that he is finally about to be committed to actual combat, and wrestles with the problem of whether or not he will have the courage to cope with it. It is a very personal story and, since the dialogue is quite terse, requires an actor who really understands such feelings and can get them across without the aid of a lot of talk.John Huston's surprising choice to play that role was Audie Murphy who, at that time, may not have had much experience as an actor, but who undoubtedly knew plenty about how it felt to be a very young man going into battle for the first time. Young as he looks in this movie, Murphy already had extensive combat experience as an infantryman in World War II, during which he earned a battlefield commission and just about every decoration for valor.As "The Loud Soldier", the second lead in the film, Huston picked another famous WW-II veteran, Bill Mauldin, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the memorable cartoons he drew for the military newspaper, "Stars and Stripes". Mauldin did a surprising good job in the film, considering he was not a professional actor.There are many small but memorable moments in this film it is almost impossible to enumerate them all. There is the Loud Soldier hearing a rumor about how the army is about to break camp and go into action - and then immediately disregarding his informant's strict injunction to keep the information to himself by telling everybody in earshot! There is the soldier who, while marching into battle, says to himself, "I wonder what the name of this battle is going to be?" (It is an odd fact that the soldiers who participate in such memorable battles such as Waterloo, Gettysburg or The Marne never actually know that they have done so until afterwards, when the historians have written about them) There are the looks on the faces of the soldiers at the moment when, on the way to the battle, they encounter the first dead man lying in the road. There is the young Lieutenant's habit of twisting the end of this mustache, either out of vanity or nervousness (or possibly a bit of both?). Those are all exactly the sort of things one would expect to see real people to do under such circumstances, and they are the little touches that make "The Red badge of Courage" stand out.