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Men in War
The story takes place on a film set in Korea, on 6 September 1950. Mark Benson (Robert Ryan) is the leader of a platoon must make many important decisions involving the survival of many people. Ultimately, who will survive?
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October 29, 2016
A razor-sharp use of environment. Though the territory is wild and unknown, Mann still emphasizes clarity of action over chaos.
July 02, 2015
Time has proved its unassuming, unadorned craftsmanship - and Ryan's understanding of men pushed to the edge, never asking for an audience's sympathy, only our awareness.
May 24, 2003
Mann and Yordan provide a work that lives up to its title, exploring the draining psychological impact of war and its physical rigours, as experienced by two central characters.
June 24, 2006
One of the best of the lost patrol movies, set in Korea in 1950, bleakly anti-heroic and prefiguring Milestone's Pork Chop Hill in the bitter irony of its climactic assault on a hill.
August 25, 2012
Grim, harsh, stunningly shot, Mann's Korean War drama is one of the best samplers of its genre.
March 25, 2006
The screen play by Philip Yordan and the direction of Anthony Mann are made up largely of previous war-film indications of human behavior that mean little when repeated so many times.
October 24, 2010
It's a routine 'lost patrol' war drama.
October 28, 2008
War on the ground has rarely been done much better than this.
