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Processo e morte di un soldato

Titolo originale: Death of a Soldier
  • 1986
  • R
  • 1h 33min
VALUTAZIONE IMDb
5,8/10
295
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James Coburn in Processo e morte di un soldato (1986)
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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaBased on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Set in the context of WWII and the uneasy US-Australian military alliance. The... Leggi tuttoBased on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Set in the context of WWII and the uneasy US-Australian military alliance. The accused killer claims to have killed 3 women in order to possess their voices. Despite th... Leggi tuttoBased on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Set in the context of WWII and the uneasy US-Australian military alliance. The accused killer claims to have killed 3 women in order to possess their voices. Despite the defense lawyer's concerns that the killer is not fit to stand trial, the US military pre... Leggi tutto

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    • Philippe Mora
  • Sceneggiatura
    • William L. Nagle
  • Star
    • James Coburn
    • Bill Hunter
    • Reb Brown
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  • VALUTAZIONE IMDb
    5,8/10
    295
    LA TUA VALUTAZIONE
    • Regia
      • Philippe Mora
    • Sceneggiatura
      • William L. Nagle
    • Star
      • James Coburn
      • Bill Hunter
      • Reb Brown
    • 14Recensioni degli utenti
    • 5Recensioni della critica
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    James Coburn
    James Coburn
    • Maj. Patrick Dannenberg
    Bill Hunter
    Bill Hunter
    • Det. Sgt. Adams
    Reb Brown
    Reb Brown
    • Pvt. Edward J. Leonski
    Maurie Fields
    Maurie Fields
    • Det. Sgt. Martin
    • (as Maurice Fields)
    Max Fairchild
    Max Fairchild
    • Maj. William Fricks
    Belinda Davey
    • Margot Saunders
    Randall Berger
    Randall Berger
    • Pvt. Anthony Gallo
    Michael Pate
    Michael Pate
    • Maj. Gen. Sutherland
    Jon Sidney
    • Gen. Douglas MacArthur
    Nell Johnson
    • Maisie
    Pippa Wilson
    • Singer in Boomerang Bar
    Kim Rushworth
    • Band in Bar
    John McTernan
    • Col. Williams
    • (as John McTiernan)
    Earl Francis
    • Police Doctor
    Ron Pinnell
    • Mr. Harmon
    Len Kaserman
    • Maj. Gen. Eichelberger
    John Cottone
    • Maj. Gen. R.G. Marshall
    Lisa Aldenhoven
    Lisa Aldenhoven
    • Girl #1 in Bar
    • Regia
      • Philippe Mora
    • Sceneggiatura
      • William L. Nagle
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    8ianprl

    The Legendary Train Battle has almost the weight of Truth.

    I agree with all the points made in the positive reviews of this film. I recently saw it for the first time on Briz31, a community TV channel which can only pay peanuts (if that) for its movies. I missed it at the cinema when it got reasonably good publicity but it quickly dropped out of sight. It deserved far better. I can only say that there is in Australia a tendency by organizations of any size to self-censor a lot of things that show the USA and particularly Australia's relationship with the USA in a bad light.

    I would add something to Graf Spee's comment that the shootout between Australian troops and American troops was fictional. This incident was very widely believed to have really happened, by Australians in the 1950s, 60s and 70s. Books and features have been written investigating it but no concrete evidence exists that it happened. Nevertheless, people believed it had, and I recall quite a few wartime generation people of both sexes telling me in all earnestness that it had, and that it was just typical that "The Government" would cover it up. So whether true or not, the existence of the legend is an indicator of the underlying tension between Americans and Australians at the time. The Battle of Brisbane was factual, but it was a riot during which some shots were fired and people were killed. The Train Battle, legend has it, occurred when a unit of Australians, on their way to the war zone, were insulted by Americans and a full scale fire fight broke out.

    One Australian attitude to Americans has been summed up as "Over-paid, Over-sexed, and Over Here", and a book about the problem has been published with that title. I just wonder if a french author has ever written a similar work about Aussie soldiers, the "Diggers" of World War One, who were paid about 7 times as much as British soldiers and much, much more than French soldiers! The wheel turns.
    8BrianG

    Outstanding little movie

    "Death of a Soldier" is a first-rate little thriller, based on an actual incident that took place in Australia during WW II. Eddie Leonski, an American soldier stationed in Australia, goes partying in the local bars at night. Women are attracted to his boyish charm, rugged good looks and spectacular physique. What they don't know is that underneath that exterior is a brain-damaged serial killer. Years of heavy alcohol consumption, and horrible physical abuse at home, have driven Eddie to the point that when he gets drunk he turns into an uncontrollable killer. He first asks his victims to sing for him, and when they do, he strangles them ("I just want your voice, that's all . . ."). He is eventually turned in by one of his fellow soldiers who is aghast when he hears Eddie offhandedly remark, "I think I killed a couple of those women."

    The movie doesn't end there, though. It shows how Eddie is used by all sides--the U.S. Army, the Australian government--to further their own agendas. The Army wants to hang him, the Australians don't want to offend the Army just at the time it needs help to fend off a possible Japanese invasion, and nobody particularly cares that Eddie is obviously insane and has no idea what he has done or what is going on around him. Reb Brown, best known as a star of low-grade action movies, is outstanding as the pathetic Eddie, never turning him into the caricature of the hulking, subhuman serial killer. He really makes you feel for Eddie. James Coburn is fine as always as the lawyer appointed to defend him, but it's Reb Brown's show, and he is up to it. It's a shame Brown never got a chance to do anything else as good as this, and it's also a shame that this film is as unknown as it is. It deserves a much wider audience than it's gotten.
    nobsnews

    An accurate and important piece of history

    It's obvious from the remarks in the previous commentaries by others, that none of them were ever in the military. Coburn was portraying a Military Police major (Maj. Dannenberg) serving as the Assistant Provost Marshal - he was not playing an Army attorney. At that time (and still optional today) an officer from any branch in the military can serve as legal council to an accused soldier - you don't have to be a lawyer (JAG Corps). This particular story was true, and is the event in military history that is directly responsible for the creation and implementation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) applicable to all the Armed Forces. The film is accurate and does not portray any Hollywood political bias. It's a great film and a good piece of history. A little known fact: Gen. MacArthur came close to being court martialed for preventing Maj. Dannenberg from appealing Pvt. Leonski's death sentence and conviction, but political allies in Washington intervened.
    deanofrpps

    The Man in the Middle

    This appears to be a remake of the older film: The Man in the Middle. The war time alliance is uneasy. Australians are in the war by one vote. They are concerned with national defence and recalled their troops from North Africa. In the midst of the angst, an American misfit kills an Australian.

    The defen(s)e is intended to be pro forma.

    I did like the older movie MAN IN THE MIDDLE and the Howard Fast Book upon which it was based.

    I wish more Australian films like this circulated in the US.
    7grafspee

    An excellent adaptation of the true story of what became known as the "brownout murders" which took place in Melbourne Australia during the Second World War.

    I recently managed to obtain a videotape of this film from a local sound store although I had seen it many years earlier on TV and have a copy of the soundtrack on vinyl record. Reb Brown gives a splendid and convincing performance as American GI Private Eddie Leonski who strangles three local women in Melbourne over a three week period in May 1942 after a drinking binge. His motives are complex and disturbed, and when finally apprehended, confesses that he just "only wanted their voices". The focus of the film centers on the tensions between American and Australian service personnel and Leonski is portrayed as a necessary sacrificial scapegoat needed by the U.S.Army to restore their credibility with the local population. The film does have it's fictional moments such as the violent shootout between American and Australian servicemen at an unknown railway station which may be a substitution of the true confrontation between these forces in the Battle of Brisbane in November 1942 in which there were actual casualties. There is also the bizarre role of Jon Sidney as General Douglas Macarthur who utters nothing throughout the film excepting a one line sentence near the end. His mouthpiece is Michael Pate playing 2IC Major General Richard Sutherland. Great performances by James Coburn who plays U.S. Major Patrick Dannenburg assigned to defend Leonski, whom he considers insane, at an American Court Martial which has an already pre-conceived judgment on the case and Maurie Fields (as Detective Sergeant Ray Martin)and Bill Hunter (as Detective Fred Adams) who play the tough hard nosed Melbourne cops confronting obstinate American military authority over their rights to exercise civil jurisdiction in the case. Extra great performance by Max Fairchild, better known to many Australians as "Beau" of the television tyre commercials, who plays the swaggering, intimidating and outspoken American Provost Marshal Major Bill Fricks. Belinda Davey who plays civilian PR officer Margot Saunders, well attired in the fashion of the era contributes a good sensual feminine performance to an otherwise male dominated film. The superb musical score by Allan Zavod well threaded into the film captures perfectly the mood and style of the wartime 1940's. This is an absolute gem of a movie well worth watching even if for only it's relatively true historical significance.

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      This movie is based on the true story of the murders of three Melbourne women by a US Army private stationed near the city during World War II. The series of killings are known as The Brown-Out Murders while the killer, Pvt. Eddie Leonski, was known as "The Brownout Strangler" or "The Brownout Murderer". "Brown-out" was a term used during the war when people would dim the lights in their houses to reduce the chances of enemy airplanes using them as a "beacon" for aerial bombing. At the time of the murders, Melbourne was in the thick of brown-out, in which the streets were dark and shadowy.
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      Featured in The Spoony Experiment: Death of a Soldier (2011)
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      Sentimental Dreams
      music by Allan Zavod

      lyrics by Marty Fields

      sung by Kerrie Biddell

      published by Filmtrax PLC

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    • Data di uscita
      • 4 dicembre 1986 (Australia)
    • Paese di origine
      • Australia
    • Lingua
      • Inglese
    • Celebre anche come
      • Death of a Soldier
    • Luoghi delle riprese
      • Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
    • Azienda produttrice
      • Suatu Film Management
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      • Dolby Stereo
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      • 2.39 : 1

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