Men in War 1957  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anthony Mann
Cast: Robert Ryan, Aldo Ray, Robert Keith, Phillip Pine, Nehemiah Persoff, Vic Morrow, James Edwards, L.Q. Jones, Adam Kennedy, Scott Marlowe, Walter Kelley, Anthony Ray
Lt. Benson (Robert Ryan) is ordered to deliver his 2nd Platoon, Co. D behind enemy lines in Korea on September 6, 1950, in an effort to get guns and supplies to U.S. troops trapped there. Benson must commandeer a truck on which Sgt. Montana (Aldo Ray) is escorting his war-weary colonel (Robert Keith) to a hospital. While Benson and Montana must deal with two different missions and two different personalities, the real danger remains the enemy.
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 Shadows 1959 N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Cassavetes
Cast: Hugh Hurd, Lelia Goldoni, Ben Carruthers, Anthony Ray, Dennis Sallas, Tom Reese, David Pokitillow, Rupert Crosse, David Jones, Pir Marini, Victoria Vargas, Cliff Carnell, Jack Ackerman, Jacqueline Walcott, Jay Crecco
Shot on location in 1950s' NYC and independently filmed and produced, John Cassavetes' film represents a new kind of American filmmaking that is not influenced by Hollywood. The story involves interracial friendships shown through the lives of a Black trumpet player, Hugh (Hugh Hurd), and his younger sister and brother, Lelia (Lelia Goldoni) and Ben (Ben Carruthers), both of whom often pass for White–but not without heartbreak caused by prejudice.
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War Hunt 1962  N/R, 81 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Denis Sanders
Cast: John Saxon, Robert Redford, Charles Aidman, Sydney Pollack, Gavin MacLeod, Tom Skerritt, Tommy Matsuda, Anthony Ray, William Challee, Nancy Hsueh
During the Korean War, an American soldier displays opposing personality traits; he ignores government orders by performing his own violent sniper attacks AND makes friends with an orphaned Korean boy.
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| 1. Men in War (1957)
2. Shadows (1959)
3. War Hunt (1962)
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