BATTLEGROUND - BLU-WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 1949
• Genre: Action, Drama, War
• Plot: December 1944. A civilian victim of the Battle of Bastogne scrounges through garbage to find a scrap of food. ‘I don't even see those things,' a war-numbed Gl says. 'I want to remember them!' his buddy snaps.; Bastogne veteran Robert Pirosh remembers with his Oscarr-winning* screenplay for Battleground, a gripping tale of 101st Airborne troops resisting Hitler's fierce, final counteroffensive. Directed by William A. Wellman [The Story of Cl Joe), the superb cast includes James Whitmore as a bantam rooster of a sarge and Van Johnson as a wisecracking PFC (as in 'Praying for Civilian'). Rugged and unsparing, Battleground- nominated for six Academy Awards ' including Best Picture - makes sure we all remember.;
• Cast: Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy, Marshall Thompson, Jerome Courtland, Don Taylor, Bruce Cowling, James Whitmore, Douglas Fowley, Leon Ames, Herbert Anderson, Thomas E. Breen, Denise Darcel, Richard Jaeckel, James Arness, Scotty Beckett, Brett King, The Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division, Joel Allen, Martha Bamattre, Richard Bartlett, Nan Boardman, Tommy Bond, Robert Boon, Michael Browne, Norman Budd, George Chandler, Tony Christian, Lillian Clayes, Louise Colombet, Gene Coogan, Bert Davidson, George Dee, Jean Del Val, Victor Desny, Christian Drake, Jim Drum, Gretl Dupont, John Dutra, Ted Eckelberry, Bill Erwin, Dan Foster, John Gardner, Gene Garrick, Edmund Glover, David Holt, James Horne, Richard Irving, Samuel Jaegers, Samuel Jagers, Dickie Jones, Tommy Kelly, Billy Lechner, William F. Leicester, Martin Lowell, Ian MacDonald, John Mansfield, Dewey Martin, Jimmie Martin, Roger McGee, Peter Michael, William Murphy, John Mylong, Tommy Noonan, George Offerman Jr., Jerry Paris, Victor Paul, Steve Pendleton, Janine Perreau, Phillip Pine, Albert Pollet, Bob Porter, Otto Reichow, John R. Reilly, Sammy Resnick, Jon Riffel, Henry Rowland, John Royce, Edmon Ryan, Carl Saxe, Nelson Scott, Irene Seidner, William Self, Charles Smith, Ivan Triesault, Max Trujillo, Roland Varno, Tommy Walker, Arthur Walsh, Ward Wood, Fred Zendar, William A. Wellman, Robert Pirosh
• Director: William A. Wellman
• Runtime: 1:58
• Company: Warner Brothers Archive Collection
• Media Format: Movie