Behind enemy lines
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Behind enemy lines |
| Original title | Was Hunt |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Denis Sanders |
| script | Stanford Whitmore |
| production | Terry Sanders |
| music | Bud Shank |
| camera | Ted D. McCord |
| cut | John Hoffman |
| occupation | |
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Behind Enemy Lines is a 1962 American war film directed by Denis Sanders, set in the Korean War . The German premiere took place on April 6, 1962. In the USA it was only released in May of the same year.
action
Towards the end of the Korean War, Americans and are Red Chinese in trench warfare over. Every night the soldier Raymond Endore sneaks behind enemy lines and kills a Chinese soldier with his dagger. Then he performs an Indian war dance over the corpse of his enemy. Endore is a loner in his turn. He only has a kind of friendship with the eight-year-old Korean orphan boy Charlie.
The new addition Ray Loomis notices the influence Endore has on the boy. A fight over Charlie begins between Loomis and Endore. When the order to cease fire reaches the troops, the soldiers breathe a sigh of relief. Endore, however, continues his nightly private campaign, which Loomis sees. Loomis briefs the company commander, Captain Pratt. The two go in search of Endore. You find him in a hole in the ground with Charlie. Endore attacks Pratt and Loomis with his dagger. Pratt has no choice but to shoot Endore in self-defense. Charlie sees Endore's body and flees into no man's land.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films describes the film as "unsensational, at the beginning with its almost documentary look, interesting war film beyond the usual schemes, but which is increasingly weaker in terms of staging and is neither able to deepen nor convincingly classify the image of the psychopath."
Cinema magazine describes the film as an "uncomfortable, disturbing front-line drama" and draws the conclusion "Small, hard-working film - historically interesting."
Bosley Crowther of the New York Times called the film in the year of release "one of the most archetypal and most agonizing war films of recent years."
The London TimeOut on the one hand criticized the simple-minded premise of the film that psychopaths often make the best soldiers, but on the other hand praised the fact that it was convincingly cast.
Awards
In 1962 the film was awarded the Silver Sails at the Locarno International Film Festival . In 1964 he was nominated by the British Film Academy for the United Nations Award .
background
Robert Redford and Charles Aidman are each starring in a movie for the second time. For Tom Skerritt it was the film debut, for Sydney Pollack the debut on the big screen. The later director Francis Ford Coppola can be seen in a minor role as a truck driver .
The film, which had an estimated budget of approximately $ 300,000, was shot in Topanga Canyon , California .
Web links
- Behind enemy lines in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Behind enemy lines. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 17, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.cinema.de/kino/filmarchiv/film/hinter-feindlichen-linien,1311555,ApplicationMovie.html
- ↑ http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A01E6DC103CE63ABC4053DFBE668389679EDE
- ↑ https://www.timeout.com/london/film/war-hunt
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056675/business