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| Released: |
1945 |
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| Genre: |
DRAMA
WAR
WORLD WAR II
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| Origin: |
US |
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| Colour: |
BW |
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| Length: |
117 |
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MIXED Reviews
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| | | "Much of the film is worked out with very unusual vitality and care - much of which, unfortunately, is related more nearly to ballet than to warfare. But mainly, I think, it is an embarrassing movie. The dialogue seems as unreal as it is expert. Most of the characters - as distinct from the men who play them - are as unreal and literary as the dialogue. The aesthetic and literary and pseudo-democratic preoccupations are so strong that at times all sense of plain reality drops out of the picture. At the end, for instance, with their farmhouse captured, various featured players are shown completing the gags which tag their characters - chomping an apple, notching a rifle-stock, and so on - while, so far as the camera lets you know, their wounded comrades are still writhing unattended in the courtyard." | | (James Agee, Nation) | | | "The greatest weakness in A Walk in the Sun is its dialogue. It is intelligent dialogue, and at times even brilliant. But there is too much of it." | | (Milton Shulman) | | | "Comes nearer than any film I have seen to giving a reasonably accurate impression of a platoon in action... The film has faults. The talk of the men is too self-consciously "literary". There are those monotonous repetitions of phrase common to all authors who base their style on Hemingway. There are one or two cases of military poetic licence bridges, for instance, are not blown by having hand grenades thrown at them. But taking it all in all, the film presents (in American terms) in a much more truthful and imaginative way than I can previously recall, the particular and universal nature of life in an infantry battle." | | (Fred Majdalany, Daily Mail) | | |
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, Richard Conte 
