Directed by Edward Dmytryk
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Sony Movie Channel)
Bored soldiers hunker down in a bombed out house in the perpetual rain of a European city. One of them gets trapped in a hole and pinned down by a machine gun. The rest debate the merits of trying to save him. Eventually, they defy orders, with one of them becoming a reluctant hero. Harry Brown adapted his own Broadway play, and like many films based on plays it's stagy and talky. However, a combination of well-developed characters and a doom-laden atmosphere make it more than watchable, but not on par with the best war films of the era.
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