The Red Badge of Courage (film)
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| Directed by | John Huston |
| Produced by | Gottfried Reinhardt |
| Written by | Stephen Crane (novel) John Huston |
| Starring | Audie Murphy Andy Devine Robert Easton Douglas Dick Tim Durant |
| Music by | Bronislau Kaper |
| Distributed by | MGM |
| Release date(s) | March 16, 1951 |
| Running time | 69 min |
| Language | English |
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The Red Badge of Courage is a 1951 war film made by MGM. It was directed by John Huston and produced by Gottfried Reinhardt with Dore Schary as executive producer. The screenplay is by John Huston, adapted by Albert Band from the Stephen Crane novel of the same name. The cinematography is by Harold Rosson and the music score by Bronislau Kaper.
The film is a sparse but faithful retelling of the story, incorporating narration from the text to move the plot forward. Audie Murphy, a hero of World War II who later went into acting, played the lead role of Henry Fleming; he was just one of many World War II veterans in the cast, giving the film a real sense of the horrors of war captured in the novel. Other actors include cartoonist Bill Mauldin, Andy Devine, Arthur Hunnicutt, and Royal Dano.
Although this was reportedly one of Huston's favorite films, he left the editing to his staff so that he could be on the set of his next project, The African Queen.
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