Heroes can cry too

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Movie
German title Heroes can cry too
Original title The proud and profane
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1956
length 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director George Seaton
script George Seaton
production William Perlberg
music Victor Young
camera John F. Warren
cut Alma Macrorie
occupation

Heroes Can Cry , too, is the title of a war melodrama from 1956. The literary source was the novel by Lucy Herndon Crocket. The film was shot in black and white, distributed by Paramount.

action

1943. Nouméa , hub on the island of New Caledonia in the South Pacific. 80,000  American marines are waiting to be deployed. A warship has just docked again, soldiers are going ashore, Lee Ashley among them.

She is met by Kate Connors, the head of the local Red Cross station. We learn that Lee wants to "make herself useful" to the Red Cross without actually knowing what she is getting into. First and foremost, she wants to know something about her husband who fell on Guadalcanal .

First, Lee finds work in the Red Cross Clubhouse and meets Eddie Wodcik there. Eddie is kind of like Kate's foster son. He discovers a similarity in Lee to his deceased sister and sees himself from now on as her protector in the background.

In their free time, Lee and Kate go to the beach. While Lee takes a bath, Kate stays behind and becomes involved in a conversation with Colin Black, an arrogant and rude Colonel. When he discovered Lee with his binoculars sunbathing on a boulder, he immediately caught fire. Lee comes back but brusquely rejects his line-up.

Black saw Lee asking people about her husband here. In order to end up with her, he gets the combat report from the military and claims to have known her husband personally at the next meeting. His tactic works. Lee falls for it and meets with him on an ongoing basis. And although she doesn't want that at all, she gradually falls for it.

Black has to maneuver for two months, Lee stays behind. She soon realizes that she is pregnant. And she learns that her child's father is married. When he returns, she confronts him. Yes, he is married. His wife is in hospital , he never loved her, but could not part with her. The discussion ends in a scuffle, she breaks free and falls hard.

Lee is in the infirmary, she has lost her child, and she refuses Colin's visits. Eddie learns the whole story and wants to kill Black. His attempt goes wrong, Black overwhelms him. Eddie is going to the military prison. At Kate's request, Colins waives court martial.

A new Red Cross station with a clubhouse is to be built on Guadalcanal. Lee flies there with Kate without meeting Colin, whose wife has since died, again. When she visits her husband's soldier's grave there, she meets his boys there. From him she learns how cruel Ashley's death was. And then he describes the image that he made of his superior's wife: that she constantly patronized her husband like "a bloodsucker out of sheer love" and determined everything. Her husband never complained about this, however, that he was weak and already dead during his lifetime.

New wounded arrive on Guadalcanal, Black is among them. A grenade hurt his brain, he just stammered monotonously: "Forgive me!" Lee discovers him among the others and stays with him. Kate, for her part, can no longer hold Eddie in her arms, he has fallen.

background

The costumes for this film are from the famous fashion designer Edith Head .

Reviews

"The spirit of" damn forever "is never far off, but in this case the credibility is far less."

- Time Out Film Guide 13

"Overly problematic, talkative war opera."

Awards

1957 were Hal Pereira , A. Earl Hedrick, Sam Comer and Frank R. McKelvy in the category Best Art Direction (B / W) and Edith Head in the category Best Costume Design (b / w) nominated for an Oscar.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Heroes can cry too. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used