The Thin Red Line
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Tells of a soldier on Guadalcanal who constantly and compulsively risks his life in combat to smother his fear of becoming a coward and of his ironic friendship with a sergeant who masks his every human feeling with a cold, impersonal attitude.
Charlie Company is assigned to capture a strategic hill called "The Dancing Elephant" The approach through a minefield leads Captain Stone to initially refuse to order his men into a killing field controlled by enemy fire. Doll shows his independent thinking by leading a successful attack against enemy emplacements when his Platoon Sergeant, Stack, panics and proves incapable of leadership. Doll and Welsh climb the surrounding hills sending boulders into the Bowling Alley that set off the land mines.
Charlie Company is assigned to capture a strategic hill called "The Dancing Elephant" The approach through a minefield leads Captain Stone to initially refuse to order his men into a killing field controlled by enemy fire. Doll shows his independent thinking by leading a successful attack against enemy emplacements when his Platoon Sergeant, Stack, panics and proves incapable of leadership. Doll and Welsh climb the surrounding hills sending boulders into the Bowling Alley that set off the land mines.
Credits
- Cast
- Keir Dullea, Jack Warden
Complete catalog record
Tells of a soldier on Guadalcanal who constantly and compulsively risks his life in combat to smother his fear of becoming a coward and of his ironic friendship with a sergeant who masks his every human feeling with a cold, impersonal attitude.
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- 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, format, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record
- Wikidata · Q3824279 ↗ — length, color, country
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