The Lost Battalion
by Russell Mulcahy
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Actor: Adam James (II), Jamie Harris, Jay Rodan, Phil McKee, Rick SchroderDirector: Russell Mulcahy
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language); German (Original Language)
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 100 minutes
Release Date: 2002-01-29
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Publisher: A&E Home Video
Studio: A&E Home Video
VHS Movie Reviews of The Lost Battalion
Movie Review: A great movie
Summary: 5 Stars
I recommend this movie to everyone.As you people know their aren't many good W.W.I.movies around let alone of this quality.All of the acting was great.The bird that got the shelling stopped is in the Washing D.C. museum of American Wars.Movie Review: The Lost Battalion
Summary: 5 Stars
A well done historical film that is accurate in almost all details. If you are a military buff this film will not disappoint. The film is fast paced and draws you into the gritty action of WW I fighting. Cut and isolated inside German lines the Battalion must fight with every thing that it can muster.
One of the best WWI films if not the very best.
Movie Review: how could they make this junk?
Summary: 1 Stars
The true story of the Lost Battalion is an amazing tale, far more so than this schlock. Historically, this is a poor retelling. They also screw around and do lots of incorrect uniforms, insignia, equipment and in general alter relaity to make it "a cool story" on a low budget.
You want to know what really happened? go read "Finding the Lost Battalion.
This does no justice to the men who were there, who deserve far better than this poorly written and produced cheap production. Charles Whittlesey
is a hero of mine. A man to be respected for both his wartime serivce and the price he paiud afterwards. THIS is not Whittlesey.
I do not think I have ever been more disapointed by a film. Go watch What Price Glory if you want to see some WW1 stuff, or either version of all quiet on the western front.
Movie Review: Lose No Time, buy this at Once
Summary: 5 Stars
Every bit as good as I remember it from when it first appeared on television. Rick Shroder is fantastic and all the characters have depth and believability. The back and forth between the enlisted men, the genuine love they have for one another, reminds me of my relationships with my comrades in Vietnam.
This is a very poignant telling of a true tale, a tale of how individual courage and commitment to one's comrades, bring meaning to what otherwise would have been an awful waste of life in a war of Trench warefare where wasted lives were the norm.
Movie Review: Outstanding
Summary: 5 Stars
Saw this movie first on the A&E network. Just came across it channel surfing. After watching a part I looked til it was on again and watched the whole thing. It was outstanding. Rick Schroder is excellent in this performance. This is a story of a battle largely unheard of in the history books.
Summary of The Lost Battalion
It began on October 2, 1918, when the men of the U.S. Army's 77th Division, 308th Battalion were surrounded by German troops in the Argonne Forest. Without food, water or reserve ammunition, cut off from supply and communication lines, and subjected to constant assaults and bombardments, they managed to hold off the enemy until they were finally rescued after five days of desperate action. This A&E Original Movie brings their harrowing ordeal to life. Directed by Russell Mulcahy (Ricochet, Highlander), THE LOST BATTALION stars Rick Schroder (NYPD Blue, Crimson Tide) as Major Charles Whittlesey, the civilian-turned-soldier who won the Congressional Medal of Honor for keeping his outnumbered troops alive and fighting in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.The true World War I story of an American unit that was surrounded by German troops and pounded mercilessly for days (at times even by its own artillery) is vividly portrayed in this made-for-television film starring Rick Schroder. Playing a patrician New York City lawyer commissioned a major and sent into combat, Schroder commands a battalion composed of New York wiseacres as well as so-called "apple knockers" from the West. The plot is straightforward (and will be familiar to those who know World War I history), but the film rises above what could have been a clich?d telling of the story of Major Whittlesey and his heroic men. The action sequences, shot tightly with hand-held cameras, owe a debt to Saving Private Ryan, and the surreal horror of World War I, in which armies killed with machine guns yet communicated by carrier pigeon, is conveyed very well. --Robert J. McNamara
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