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The Long Day's Dying (1968)
Director: Peter Collinson
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
A clumsy adaptation of Alan White's fine novel about four lost soldiers - three British paratroopers and a German who becomes their prisoner - wandering around a World War II battlefield in Europe which becomes a private hell. The novel's rather interesting argument, that a highly trained soldier can revel in his skill as a killer and yet remain a pacifist, gets lost in hysterical overstatement, much camera trickery, insistent soft-focus photography, and a script by Charles Wood which is unwisely cast as a poetic stream-of-consciousness monologue. Excellent performances, though, especially from Tom Bell.Author: TM
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- Willem van Putten said...
- Posted on Dec 28 2008 12:16 I don't agree. It's a great movie with an impact which is at least at par with Saving Private Ryan or The Thin Red Line. Maybe you have to have an infantry background to fully appreciate this movie.
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Cast & crew
Director: Peter Collinson
Producer: Harry Fine
Cast: David Hemmings, Tom Bell, Tony Beckley, Alan Dobie full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 95 mins
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