Rate Points :3.5
Binding :VHS Tape
Label :MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer :MGM (Video & DVD)
ProductGroup :Video
Studio :MGM (Video & DVD)
Publisher :MGM (Video & DVD)
UPC :027616252234
EAN :9786302375794
Price :$19.98USD
Lowest Price :$24.99USD
Customer ReviewsBattle Circus Redux
Rating Point :4 Helpful Point :3
My VHS tape is going bad. Make it into a D V D format!!!! I was stationed at K 55 twice. In 68 after the Pueblo was captured and lost a good buddy that was in a M A S H. And again in 72. This is and I suppose it still is a very nice country, the people are very friendly and outgoing. I have spent many a day with friends and family in Osan. The good friend was a Korean loading leader (air freight) and spoke very good English. His whole family, wife and three kids always welcomed me into their home. The war was extreamly rough on those people. The movie told it just about the way it was, dirty, bloody, and just plain rotten. !!!!
Meat and potatoes without gravy
Rating Point :2 Helpful Point :3
Humphrey Bogart is always worth watching, even in an essentially bad film. "Battle Circus" falls into that category simply by virtue of his being paired with June Allyson. Im not knocking June, but she was as awkwardly cast opposite Bogart as she was at home beside James Stewart. This movie is interesting for its portrayal of a MASH unit long before Robert Altmans more radical film, but it focuses on romance more than war. That approach may have worked with "Casablanca," but this isnt "Casablanca." After winning his Oscar for "The African Queen," Bogart was quoted as saying he would concentrate on "meat and potatoes" pictures, as opposed to more ambitious material. This is meat and potatoes without the gravy.
All is Fair in Love and War
Rating Point :4 Helpful Point :4
Battle Circus is a war film that is set on the borderline of war. It follows the activities of a hospital near the front where wounded soldiers and prisoners go for aid. Humphrey Bogart plays a stubborn and war-worn surgeon who has an eye for a nurse played by June Allyson. The two have suprisingly good chemistry with each other, possibly because they were friends in life. Some might say this film is a lot like MASH, but it reads more like classic Hollywood than modern television.
They really do not make movies like this anymore. The romance between the doctor and the nurse seems stereotypical and doomed to fail, but with the chemistry between the two and the intelligence of the characters, it seems it might just work out despite everything working against them. There is a certain amount of hope projected that is rarely seen today. Too bad it makes for a great ending and a great film.
Unusual star teaming in neat war story
Rating Point :4 Helpful Point :11
I always tend to enjoy films where the casting is a bit off beat and where the leads are not at fist glance a likely combination. Such is the case in "Battle Circus" with the once off and very unlikely combination of Humphrey Bogart, veteran star of many tough guy roles at Warners, and June Allyson the 40s sweetheart of MGM. I must say it makes for an interesting and surprisingly compatiable star teaming.
"Battle Circus" while never being in the top range of Bogart films over the years delivers a vivid and well documented story set during the Korean war, 30years before the famed TV series MASH tackled the same topic. This film tells the story of one such MASH unit responsible for the care of the allied forces wounded at whatever front the fighting takes them. It focuses on the love /hate relationship that develops between cynical world weary unit doctor Major Jed Webbe (Humphrey Bogart) and dedicated unit nurse Lieut. Ruth McGara. While not love at first sight the story develops so that both these very different individuals learn just a little about life from each other. That is why the casting of Bogart and Allyson , much criticised at the time of release, I feel works so well. Tow contrasting types learning off each other to become better people. These two skilled performers have a great flow in their scenes together and while it is not like a teaming of Bogart and Bacall or Bogart and Hepburn or even Allyson and Peter Lawford it works very well. Both are very believable in the roles and bring a realism to their delivery that further aids the films story in painting a picture of the futility and horror of war.
Indeed "Battle Circus" has often been accused of playing up the romance to the detriment of the real war story happening in Korea. I feel that it offers a good balance and for a film made in the fifties it provides in some cases a very vivid view of the emotions and horrors that the Korean war produced. It portrays a sympathetic view of the ordinary Korean citizens caught up in the fighting and the plight of catured North Korean soldiers who are simply frightened more than being dangerous enemies.June Allysons big scene when she confronts a terrified North Korean Prisone rof war who has armed himself with a grenade in the hospital is a very thrilling piece of action and she rises to the dramatic requirements of the scene superbly. The scenes as the camp has to pack up and move to the next war zone and when the camp itself comes under attack from the enemy are very graphically depicted and really give you a sense of the hardships endured by all during these times. The final piece of action as the wounded are moved in a convoy through rugged terrain often under enemy fire are very exciting and never once try to soft peddle the hardship of war.
"Battle Circus" will never be one of the great war stories but I find it a very well done and enjoyable saga, well acted and very honest in its attempts to show all the different sides of the war. It does play up the romance and it shows the humour too but equally it depicts the frustrations and fears encountered by all during this conflict after which our world was never the same. Enjoy Bogart and Allyson in their only teaming on screen.
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