Talk:A Walk in the Sun (1945 film)

Opinion paragraph removed from synopsis

I removed this paragraph, which is both opinion and added nothing to the synopsis:

Compared to later "realistic" war movies centering on the personalities in an Army platoon in combat, 'A Walk in the Sun' comes off as a shlocky government-approved Hollywood propaganda or an Army training film. Which was it was both; filmed on an obvious California backlot with studio contact actors who complained only mildly about army life. They always carried standard field pack complete with entrenching tool and also, they always wore helmet chin straps per regulations.

The director -- Lewis Milestone -- is famous for his anti-war stance (c.f. his All Quiet on the Western Front and Pork Chop Hill), so no matter what the Army's assistance on the picture was, trying to claim this was a propaganda film (made while the war was still going on, mind you) is doing both Milestone and the movie an injustice. (Ironically, he did work on actual Army training films during WWI.)

Besides, characters often relaxed with their helmets off, always a no-no in combat situations. ;)

--Robert Daeley (talk) 11:06, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

Despite the tendency of Hollywood during the early and mid-twentieth century to use older actors to portray soldiers having an average age of twenty-eight, the movie succeeds in presenting the lives of an Army platoon with a certain degree of realism. The slang and banter in particular, although somewhat stilted, would have been typical of a group of soldiers during World War II.

The fact that most of the staff sergeants seem to have painted chevrons (or at least the rocker) on their field jackets seems odd, however, as does the liberal use of a whistle for signaling while on patrol.

RangerJ (talk) 01:10, 10 May 2009 (UTC)

I have recently seen this film, which is in my opinion a very unusual war film, which I had not heard of before. It has a remarkable male vocalist who sounds like Paul Robeson. I do not see credits for the singer and I wonder if anyone knows who it might be. Isthisuseful (talk) 15:39, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

Nonsensical sentence

I am just wondering how this sentence could be improved so that it makes sense:

"The film was released in June 1946 to critical and popular acclaim but also a strong critique of the film from director Samuel Fuller, which he sent in the form of a letter to Milestone." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.148.195.131 (talk) 20:11, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

It could be improved by reprinting the letter here, in full, within the article, with the appropriate citation for historians who want to track it to an original authoritative source or library archive. Starhistory22 (talk) 00:18, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

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Plot

The synopsis is almost word by word the one on this site https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/94993/a-walk-in-the-sun/#synopsis but it contains no footnote.

I noticed this after I edited it down a little. I'll appreciate some guidance on what's appropriate here.

Emile Blondet (talk) 22:45, 24 April 2023 (UTC)