I am still very fond of "onward, Christian scarecrow".
Mow. Thank you.
The ending feels like something thirty years ahead of its time, but perhaps that's because for a period in between there was never talk of such bleakness. I don't know.
I don't know for certain, but I lean strongly in the direction that there wasn't. Even Battleground (1949), which I consider the closest a Code-era Hollywood film got to presenting the realities of war—Jody calls and the "Battered Bastards of Bastogne" and all—doesn't end so hard. Then again, it wasn't the war to. The Lost Patrol feels like it channeled straight into Vietnam. And then back into Iraq, and Afghanistan.
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Mow. Thank you.
The ending feels like something thirty years ahead of its time, but perhaps that's because for a period in between there was never talk of such bleakness. I don't know.
I don't know for certain, but I lean strongly in the direction that there wasn't. Even Battleground (1949), which I consider the closest a Code-era Hollywood film got to presenting the realities of war—Jody calls and the "Battered Bastards of Bastogne" and all—doesn't end so hard. Then again, it wasn't the war to. The Lost Patrol feels like it channeled straight into Vietnam. And then back into Iraq, and Afghanistan.