Más allá de la gloria (1980)

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- 2 premios ganados y 2 nominaciones en total

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Lee Marvin

The Sergeant

Mark Hamill

Pvt. Griff - 1st Squad

Robert Carradine

Pvt. Zab - 1st Squad

Bobby Di Cicco

Pvt. Vinci - 1st Squad

Kelly Ward

Pvt. Johnson - 1st Squad

Stéphane Audran

Underground Walloon Fighter at Asylum
(as Stephane Audran)

Siegfried Rauch

Sgt. Schroeder

Serge Marquand

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Charles Macaulay

General…

Alain Doutey

Sgt. Broban - Vichy Soldier

Maurice Marsac

Vichy Colonel

Colin Gilbert

Dog Face POW - Tunis Hospital

Joseph Clark

Pvt. Shep - Soldier on Troop Transport

Ken Campbell

Pvt. Lemchek - #2 on Bangalore Torpedo

Doug Werner

Switolski

Perry Lang

Pvt. Kaiser - 1st Squad

Howard Delman

Pvt. Smitty - Soldier in Sicily Fetching Water

Marthe Villalonga

Madame Marbaise

Perhaps I am an exception but this film really did nothing for me.

The premise is simple: the experiences of a US infantry squad led by Lee Marvin fighting in Europe and North Africa during WW II. It was supposed to be about the experiences of the men who fought but I didn't feel the film delivered that: none of the characters were really explored or given much depth, even the great Lee Marvin seemed distant and cold. There isn't too much dialogue, in fact there isn't too much of anything in this film. Its just there but it doesn't really give you much, it just leaves you cold. The plot is occasionally just plain weird and confusing, not the good kind of quirky type of weird but just strange for no apparent reason and with no charm to it.

The action scenes are average, nothing special but enough for their purpose. What annoyed me was that so many different locations were so obviously filmed in the same sandy country (Israel) and it just didn't come off as very convincing. I didn't believe that what I was being shown was really the place it was supposed to be. Its also a quiet film, with very minimal music which in itself isn't bad but just gave the whole thing a somewhat sleepy atmosphere. I wouldn't go so far as to say the film was boring, it wasn't but it just wasn't that attention grabbing either.

Its a film that is there but it did absolutely nothing for me. Others however might enjoy it.

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The bulk of the picture was shot in Israel, and director Samuel Fuller remarked that it was unsettling after a scene was shot when the German soldiers and SS troops would take off their helmets and Fuller would see them wearing yarmulkes; also, between takes they would be sitting around the set in full Nazi uniform speaking Hebrew or reading the Torah.

Errores
During the WW1 scene between the Sergeant and the officer in the dug-out, the Sergeant learns that the armistice had been signed 4 hours previously at 1100hrs, November 11, 1918. While talking with the officer, the sergeant is cutting a piece of red cloth in the shape of a number '1' which he says he will submit as a proposed insignia for the division. However the shoulder sleeve insignia for the 1st Division consisting of a red number "1" was already approved on 31 Oct 1918.

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[the troop stops before a memorial]
Johnson: Would you look at how fast they put the names of all our guys who got killed?
The Sergeant: That's a World War One memorial.
Johnson: But the name's are the same.
The Sergeant: They always are.

Versiones alternativas
In 2004, film critic Richard Schickel restored this film to a new director's cut length of approximately 160 minutes. Using Samuel Fuller's production notes and the full-length, unexpurgated script, Schickel restored the footage that was forced to be cut by the studio upon its original 1980 release (which runs 116 minutes). The restored version's DVD release date is 3 May 2005. This longer, epic-length version is closer to Fuller's original vision for the film.