Battle Cry - DVD

A guitar-picking good ol' boy. A clean-cut all-American. A Navajo. A bookworm. A lumberjack. A slum kid. All enter Marine boot camp to be trained, hardened and ready to answer their country's Battle Cry. Scripted by Leon M. Uris from his own novel, directed by action master Raoul Walsh and starring a who's who of '50s movie stars, Battle Cry is an epic ode to World War II Marine heroism and homefront sacrifice, a saga following recruits

Long before M*A*S*H, there was Battle Circus. Made during the Korean War, this tribute to the indomitable human spirit takes an authentic, almost documentary-like look at the nurses and doctors who operated in the battlefront Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals. Major Jed Webbe (Humphrey Bogart) is a brilliant, hard-bitten Army surgeon with a weakness for women and strong liquor. Fresh from the states arrives Lt. Ruth McCara (June Allyson),

As World War II rages, U.S. Navy submarine Lt. Commander Jeff Conway (Academy-Award winner Cliff Robertson, 1968, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Charly) is captured by the Japanese and taken to a small island in the Pacific. While undergoing questioning by his captors, Conway meets the island's owner, Karen Philips (Gia Scala, The Guns of Navarone), who is acting as an interpreter for the Japanese yet offers to help him escape. Can he tr