February 4 movie: Battleground. War movie starring Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy and many others. I read on IMDB that the script was based on the writer's own experiences in the infantry, and a lot of the moments that seemed cliche (like the guy who keeps losing his false teeth, and then pretends to lose them to avoid a detail) were actually true stories. I mainly recorded it for Ricardo Montalban but unfortunately he gets killed early on. Which I should have expected: the plucky ethnic guy always gets killed early on. Still, I really enjoyed the movie. It was a nicely done portrait of living in a constant mixture of danger and boredom.
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