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Director John Huston used unusual compositions and camera angles drawn from ''[[film noir]]'' to create an alienating battlefield environment. Huston had high hopes for the movie, believing it could have been "his best". He became frustrated when the studio cut the film's length to 70 minutes and added narration following supposedly poor audience test screenings.<ref name=ross/>
Much of the history of the making of this film, considered by some a mutilated masterpiece, is found in Lillian Ross' critically acclaimed book ''Picture''. Of[[Royal theDano]], starscast whoas appearThe Tattered Man, delivered such a disturbing performance in thehis filmdeath scene, threeaccording servedto indirector [[WorldJohn War IIHuston]]:, Billthe Mauldininitial wastest aaudience famousleft editorial/cartoonistthe whotheater createdin droves. "I''[[Willieve andnever Joe]]''seen whileso inmany Europepeople, Audieget Murphyup servedand auspiciously withleave the [[Utheater.S..they Army]]liked no part of it". The death scene, troubling enough in EuropeStephen Crane's book, was lent a human touch by Dano, and narratorin 1951, war-weary Americans, rejected it (Huston: "...[[Jamesthe Whitmore]audience rejection] servedwas witha thepretty [[Usickening event.S"). MarineThe Corps]]film was immediately recut, the death scene removed. It is long believed, and as early as Huston commenting in a interview on ''The Dick Cavett Show'' in 1972, the scene has been lost to us ("I doubt very much, whether the scene still exists.").<ref>''The Dick Cavett Show'' name=ross(2/21/72)</ref>
 
Of the stars who appear in the film, three served in [[World War II]]: Bill Mauldin was a famous editorial/cartoonist who created ''[[Willie and Joe]]'' while in Europe, Audie Murphy served auspiciously with the [[U.S. Army]] in Europe and narrator [[James Whitmore]] served with the [[U.S. Marine Corps]].<ref name=ross/>
 
The film is available on DVD.
 
==Reception==
According to MGM records, the film earned $789,000 in the US and Canada and $291,000 in other countries, resulting in a loss of $1,018,000. This made it one of the studio's least successful films of the year although it did not lose as much money as ''[[Calling Bulldog Drummond]]'', ''[[Mr Imperium]]'' or ''[[Inside Straight (film)|Inside Straight]]''.<ref name="Mannix"/>
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