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The Red Badge of Courage (1951) was a Drama - War Film directed by John Huston and produced by Dore Schary and Gottfried Reinhardt.

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The Red Badge of Courage (1951)

By Beatrice on Aug 19, 2015 From Flickers in Time

The Red Badge of Courage Directed by John Huston Written by John Huston and adapted by Albert Band from the novel by Stephen Crane 1951/USA Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer First viewing/Amazon Instant This adaptation of the classic novel is the simple story of a raw young soldier’s coming of age.  W... Read full article

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James Whitmore's narration was added after several disastrous previews and extensive editing.
Early in the film, Henry Fleming ('Audie Murphy') is shown writing a letter to his family. The date at the top of the letter is 10 September, 1862. This makes the battle depicted in the film either Turner's Gap, South Mountain, Maryland, on Sept 14; or Antietam Creek (Sharpsburg), Maryland, on Sept 17. Scholarship generally agrees that the battle in the novel is more like Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 1863. The novel never names a place or gives a date. One year after the publication of the novel, Stephen Crane had a short story entitled "The Veteran," published in McClure's magazine. In the story Henry Fleming is an old man telling the story of his first battle in the Civil War. There Fleming identifies the battle as being Chancellorsville.
This production amounted to a power struggle between Louis B. Mayer and producer Dore Schary. Mayer rejected the production (partly on account of it lacking women and thus a romance angle) and Schary insisted. Mayer appealed to Loew's Inc. chairman Nicholas Schenck and was rebuffed. This and other ego-bruising incidents that occurred during the same period resulted in Mayer's ouster from the company he helped found in 1924. As Mayer predicted the $1.6 million film flopped badly but by the Summer of 1951 he was out.
A huge chunk of Royal Dano's role was removed from the final print.
John Dierkes, who plays 'The Tall Soldier', also narrates the trailer.
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