The film's sets were designed by the art director James Basevi. According to Hollywood scuttlebutt, Humphrey Bogart liked writer/director Richard Brooks because he could walk all over him. Title:
He is a much-tried doctor by the continual movement of the outfit due to the changing battle lines. Unfortunately for the general pace and impact, considerable time is allotted to a dawdling and familiar personal drama, the romance of an Army surgeon and a rookie nurse. Bogart was teamed with an old pal, Keenan Wynn and June Allyson who was also a friend.
Unfortunately, the only semblance of a plot is a rather whimsical romance between Humphrey Bogart and June Allyson. Learn how your comment data is processed. 21 of 38 people found this review helpful.
A look at the life of Florence Nightingale. When she asks him if he has someone else back home, he refuses to answer, and they separate. Jed ends up saving the life of the child. Matt Brennan runs into Jo Holloway, the Red Cross girl he romanced in Europe when he was a flyer in World War II, when he is offered a job by jet manufacturer Leland Willis as a test pilot.... See full summary ». Jed is a relentless taskmaster, demanding Captain John Rustford (William Campbell) to fly desperately needed blood supplies at night, even in the teeth of a fierce storm. Ruth's personal mission is to serve suffering humanity. The movie stars Humphrey Bogart and June Allyson, and costars Keenan Wynn and Robert Keith. Nurse Lt. Ruth McGara is assigned to a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) unit near the front lines of the Korean War. . "[14], According to MGM records, the film earned $1,627,000 in the US and Canada and $735,000 overseas, resulting in a profit of $265,000.[1]. ( Log Out / Use the HTML below.
Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? As appearing in Battle Circus, (main roles and screen credits identified):[5], According to Richard Brooks (in an interview filmed for the 1988 Bacall on Bogart documentary), Battle Circus was originally called MASH 66, a title rejected by MGM because the studio thought people would not understand the connection to a military hospital. (1953).
View production, box office, & company info. Webbe is pushy and seems to care only for momentary pleasures, but McGara falls for him just the same. Action, Certificate: Passed The aerial sequences with the Bell 47 helicopters were filmed there. Brooks doesn't appear too servile in his disciplined handling of the film, though one can detect a slight lack of enthusiasm on his part. Webb falls for a nurse, Lt. Ruth McGara (June Allyson), a sort of idealistic, straight arrow, not unlike “Hot Lips”. There she meets and is roughly romanced by Major Jed Webbe, one of the unit's surgeons. studiously traces a routine wartime romance against an absorbing, often tingling background of a mobile Army surgical hospital at the Korean front. Looking for something to watch?
A cynical American expatriate gets involved in smuggling and gun-running for the rebels during the 1925 Syrian insurgency against French occupation. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. Wynn, a former circus type, knows how to pull up stakes, so he takes care of moving the equipment and providing what little humor there is. Battle Circus (1952) is not just one of the few Korean War films ever made by Hollywood, but it is one of the even fewer contemporaneous Hollywood films about the subject AND it is all about life in a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital. Director Richard Brooks has done a dandy job. Was this review helpful to you? . [8] The camp commandant offered the film crews use of the base facilities, including his house for the lead actors, after initial scenes were finished.[11]. One MASH moved 19 times in seven months while another moved 33 times in one year. ( Log Out / . Stumbled on this one on TCM recently, and my jaw dropped. Set in Korea and made during the war, this is the love story of a hard-bitten Army surgeon, and a new nurse ready to save the world. "The Robber," "13 Assassins," "Thor" and More. Allyson, June and Frances Spatz Leighton. Whether by compulsion or misguided inspiration, Mr. Brooks' Korea too often reverts to pure redundant Hollywood. Nurse Lt. Ruth McGara is assigned to a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) unit near the front lines of the Korean War. Ruth is warned by the other nurses of his womanizing ways, and that he is probably married. "Hollywood," Associated Press. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. By contrast, the MASHs on film tended to stay put. His co star June Allison was ok. Bogie's character loved booze and the ladies. [8] Bogart told Brooks, a close friend, "let's not make any more movies together. Former bootlegger Remy Marco has a slight problem with forclosing bankers, a prospective son-in-law, and four hard-to-explain corpses. Bogart (in his only film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[3]) plays a surgeon and commander of Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) 8666 (shortened to "66" in the dialogue),[4] with Allyson playing a newly arrived nurse.
Against her resilience, he continues with sequential passes. "[12], Bob Thomas of the Associated Press wrote: "'Battle Circus' is a war story that has everything but a plot. Drama, Certificate: Passed . Traveling cross-country, he sets out on a perilous journey, attempting to meet up with the nurses who have gone on ahead by rail to a preset rendezvous. An interesting revelation: I used to think of Mike Farrell’s mustache on the tv show as extremely ahistorical; Wynn’s ‘stache in this film is not terribly different from Farrell’s. A group of nurses returning from the war in the Phillippines recall their experiences in combat and in love.
In practice MASHes during the Korean War were highly mobile. At first, Ruth is a bumbling addition to the nurse corps, but she attracts the attention of Jed immediately because of the needless risks she takes. . (www.travsd.com) is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). Despite initial obstacles, their love flourishes against a background of war, enemy attacks, death and injury. Youthful tough Johnnie Stone has fallen under the influence of petty crook Frank Wilson, who involves him and robbery and murder using his sister's boyfriend's stolen gun. And Richard Hooker (Richard Hornberger) wrote the novel M*A*S*H (1968) based on real experiences. ( Log Out / For, in depicting the hairbreadth, makeshift operations of one of these heroic units, channeling its precious cargo to safety under constant exposure to the enemy. An engineer trapped in an unhappy marriage murders his wife in the hope of marrying her younger sister. When a now more assured Ruth treats some North Korean prisoners, a frightened prisoner (Philip Ahn) with a concealed grenade is calmly disarmed by her soothing words and manner. The settings: the mess tent, the operating tent, the bubble copters, the jeeps, the jokey hand-painted signage are all extremely familiar at this point. Writer and performer Trav S.D.
Keenan Wynn plays the token enlisted man, not too much like Radar, but superhumanly indispensable nonetheless. But still, it’s uncanny to experience nonetheless. I find it impossible to conceive that Robert Altman, both a scholar of war films and a veteran director of the tv show Combat, didn’t just know but studied this film in preparation for M*A*S*H (1970). Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. According to Richard Brooks (in an interview filmed for the 1988 Bacall on Bogart documentary), Battle Circus was originally called MASH 66, a title rejected by MGM because the studio thought people would not understand the connection to a military hospital. Please log in using one of these methods to post your comment: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Bogart was totally out of place in this role and acted like it. . The title of the film actually refers to the speed and ease with which a MASH unit, with its assemblage of tents, and portable equipment, can, like a circus, pick up stakes and move to where the action is. View all posts by travsd. It was filmed during the Korean War and pre-dates the more popular M*A*S*H by some 17 years. Richard Brooks); the diary of a film history fanatic", "Battle Circus (1953): Wartime Romance Flourishes in Korea. A retrospective review in TV Guide noted, "This movie was the forerunner to M*A*S*H, chronicling a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in the Korean War. Crime, Certificate: Passed Allyson is a self-sacrificing nurse who comes to Korea to serve at Bogart's hospital just a few miles behind the lines. Singularly undistinguished except for Bogart's presence. A young Army nurse, Lieutenant Ruth McCara (June Allyson), is newly assigned to the 8666th MASH, a mobile field hospital constantly on the move during the Korean War. Directed by Richard Brooks. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. Biography. Major Jed Webb (Humphrey Bogart), a surgeon with the 8666th MASH is a maverick, an undisciplined but heroic guy who plays by his own rules. . This movie was not called MASH because the producer said the audience would think it was related to mashed potatoes.
While commending Battle Circus for being a revealing and engrossing wartime drama, reviewers noted that the tepid love story distracted. . Change ). . After seeing that he is beloved by the unit, she agrees to his advances. There she meets and is roughly romanced by Major Jed Webbe, one of the unit's surgeons. "Battle Circus" was an ambitious effort by Director Richard Brooks to portray the day to day operations of a mobile MASH unit in Korea. Stumbled on this one on TCM recently, and my jaw dropped. [6], Brooks also noted that Bogart agreed to do the film because the script's humor, set in a story showing the tragedy of war, would make the film seem more realistic to an audience. This is done graphically and with a great deal of excitement. What to Watch if You Miss the "Game of Thrones" Cast. The purpose of the film is noble enough: to show the operations of the mobile hospital units in Korea. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! . After crooked nightclub owner Chips Maguire murders a police informant, he blackmails his piano player to allow him to stay at his eccentric mother's boarding house.
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