Between Heaven and Hell
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Actor: Broderick Crawford, Buddy Ebsen, Robert Keith, Robert Wagner, Terry MooreBrand: Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 94 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-05-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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DVD Review: Slipped right by us before we realized what we had
Summary: 5 Stars
Bobby, we hardly knew ye....
If Hollywood cannot suppress a great concept and turn it into drivel before a film gets made, they often will find a way to do it after it has been released. Orson Welles learned this the hard way making Citizen Kane to his great pain, and could never get quite enough funding for any big film after that.
This is no Citizen Kane, nor will Robert Wagner ever, ever, be confused with Orson Welles. On the other hand, to call him un-charismatic?!? Not to a whole generation of girls in the 50's and 60's, including my sweetie. Not to mention to a whole generation of guys who wanted to be like him.
As a war film, it is way above the cut and cannot be written off too easily after viewing. I esteem it as much as Hell Is For Heroes with Steve McQueen or Attack! with Jack Palance. Films that stood out from the fodder, and were rarely duplicated if ever. Why this one never got respect, I am too young to have heard, and at this point, there is a whole new generation who will get to see, and perhaps appreciate it.
I saw this film many years ago on TV and I never quite forgot it, for many reasons, and I have been dying to see it released on DVD.
The other reviews on this site give a decent summation of the plot, but the truth of the film goes deeper. Buddy Ebson as a sharecropper gives a slyly informed humanity to people we all have driven by when we saw them (barely) working in the fields, or else cleaning our offices, or in our kitchens.
Broderick Crawford so typifies the insanity of war, where we can find ourselve in situations without a rulebook, yet not knowing the rules means death.
Before the war, seen in flashback, Wagner is deeply unhappy at the top of the heap, and takes it out on those at the bottom of the pyramid as if he had no feelings. Yet, he loves his wife with the passion of youth, and something deeper, as she him.
He is a landed aristocrat in a South about to experience drastic change, but has not yet figured out how to deal with the peasants who are people too.
If he were a lesser man, as is his best friend (Tod Andrews, who would later play the Gray Ghost on TV), the difficulty of being a chivalrous and decent man whose culture demands he forget decency when dealing with his social inferiors, he would not be so driven and unhappy.
War experiences bring out the best and worst in men, and we see his best friend (from before the war) fail the test and, in the process, killing Wagner's new friends, common men, made during the war, and we experience the pain when his surrogate father dies. If you wondered where Tom Hanks in Saving Private Ryan got the shakes, watch Rober Wagner progress in this film. He is more than adequate. He has things to teach others who followed.
A film does not have to be perfect to be great, and this is a great film, and flawed, make no mistake. Being ignored for so long means only that we should take a closer look now, and judge carefully before writing it off.
Get the DVD in widescreen. On Turner TNT, only the credits are in widescreen, the rest is pan and scan, which is a shame. In contrast, the original wide frame is composed to advantage throughout, when you see it for the first time in almost 50 years as it was meant to be seen.
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