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Summary: What a classic!
Review: Audie Murphy was the most decorated war hero from world war II. This movie tells his story.
It is amazing that Audie survived world war II, then returned home to a career in movies. He later was killed in a plane crash.
The cinemotography in this movie isn't the greatest, and the acting could be better, but the autobiographical story is really good.
Audie Murphy was a genuine hero and he deserves our respect. God Bless him.
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Summary: Very good
Review: Hey its a good movie....but one thing that the movie compresses to the extreme is his act that won him the Medal of Honor. Its EXTREMELY downplayed in the movie. In reality he held off a German advance from 3 directions for over an HOUR....an hour!!! Then just seconds after he jumped off the tank it blew up. Just wanted to set the record straight on that....
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Summary: Very good
Review: Hey its a good movie....but one thing that the movie compresses to the extreme is his act that won him the Medal of Honor. Its EXTREMELY downplayed in the movie. In reality he held off a German advance from 3 directions for over an HOUR....an hour!!! Then just seconds after he jumped off the tank it blew up. Just wanted to set the record straight on that....
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Summary: I'm embarassed
Review: I have to say that after I saw this movie, I was a little embarassed that I had never heard of Audie Murphy before, especially since I'm 37 years old. This guy epitomizes the term "war hero" and his story needs to be retold. I'd love to see this remade so that more generations of people would know about him. The current version was great, especially because Audie plays himself. A must watch, especially for anyone who doesn't know anything about him.
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Summary: Audie Murphy - American
Review: Most of us know Audie Murphy's story... enlisted underage, became the most decorated soldier in WWII, became an actor still influenced by his military experiences, and died in a tragic plane crash. But Murphy was typical of the men who have fought and died for the salvation of the American way. He wasn't the only hero, nor the "greatest" hero. I'm sure he'd agree with that if he were here with us today. ALL those who've given their lives, their limbs, their hearts, their efforts have all been heros. Just as those who protect us now are heros. The movie was enjoyable, and undoubtedly modified from the absolute truth in many places. But the underlying message is strong and clear.
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Summary: More compelling than the Bible
Review: Murphy doesn't glorify war or his own accomplishments ( he doesn't even mention his awards) He paints a stark landscape and a brutal existence but still manages to draw the reader in with vivid descriptions of the only thing that matters to him at the time, his companions. Sometimes it's hilarious how they kid and pick on each other but then we're thrown back to reality when one of them loses his composure or is killed. The soldiers don't care about the next hill , they want to stay alive and keep their buddies alive. You feel a piece of Murphy die with each of his friends that are wounded or killed. The best is left for the last lines where he becomes a philosopher; this should be read every Rememberance day. " When I was a child, I was told that men were branded by war. Has the brand been put on me? Have the years of blood and ruin stripped me of all decency? Of all belief? Not of all belief. I believe in the force of a hand grenade, the power of artillery, the accurancy of a Garand. I believe in hitting before you get hit, and that dead men do not look noble. But I also believe in men like Brandon and Novak and Swope and Kerrigan; and all the men who stood up against the enemy, taking their beatings without whimper and their triumphs without boasting. The men who went and would go again to hell and back to preserve what our country thinks right and decent. My country. America! That is it. We have been so intent on death that we have forgotten life. And now suddenly life faces us. I swear to myself that I will measure up to it. I may be branded by war, but I will not be defeated by it. Gradually it becomes clear. I will go back. I will find the kind of girl of whom I once dreamed. I will learn to look at life through uncynical eyes, to have faith, to know love. I will learn to work in peace as in war. And finally - finally, like countless others, I will learn to live again. He doesn't know, even years after the war is over, if he has learned to live again. A truly compelling story that speaks to anyone about what it means to persever in the face of hardship. What it doesn't tell you in the story is that he joined the army at 17 to support his 6 younger siblings after his father left and his mother died. It doesn't tell you that he won ever major medal the the USA gives it's solders , some of them more than once. It doesn't tell you how he was haunted by post traumatic stress syndrom for the rest of his life but still managed to have a successful song writing and acting career including starring as himself in the movie about his war experiences "To Hell and Back" that was the highest grossing movie until "Jaws" came out in 1975. OK , I'm obviously biased abut this story, but the only thing I can find wrong with this story is that it was too short. I still find myself rereading sections that I found particularily compelling.
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Summary: A Real American
Review: My father enlisted in the Army in 1949 at the age of 18 while inspired by the actions of Audie Murphy. He went to Korea and fought bravely for the USA. I enlisted in the Army in 1992 at the age of 17 for the same reason. This movie not only makes you think but also inspires.
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Summary: TO HELL AND BACK WITH AUDIE MURPHY
Review: THE MOVIE "TO HELL AND BACK" WITH AUDIE MURPHY. TELL HOW A LITTLE BOY FROM TEXAS WON THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR FOR WATCHING OUT FOR HIS COMPANY IN WWII. I LIKE IT NOT BECAUSE I WAS BORN IN THE STATE OF TEXAS. BUT IT SHOW WHAT PEOPLE CAN DO IN ANY GIVING SITUATION........................................
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Summary: Surprisingly Good Hollywood Take On Murphy's War
Review: The single biggest reason to watch this movie is that the star himself was in fact the single most decorated war hero of World War Two, and he is convincing here playing himself with dignity, sincerity, and humility, which, of course, Audie Murphy always had in spades. The movie was adopted from his best-selling autobiography, which my Mom let me read after blackening out all of the four letter slang (as she called it). Perhaps it shows that he was my childhood hero, and I still have a personalized autographed photo somewhere reading "Thanks, Barry, for being my fan" that a friend's mom got for three or four of us ten year olds at the time this movie was released in the mid 1950s. It was the first movie I saw ten times. And I wasn't alone; Murphy was a national icon. The movie truly is a classic; tightly directed, poignant, honest, accurate, and showing gripping combat without being gory or maudlin. It sometimes decends into travelogue movie-theater type newsreel moments, but these are thankfully rare and forgiveable. On the other hand, this is an interesting and absolutely true story of a common and uneducated boy from rural Texas who wanted more than anything to be a soldier and serve his country, and his subsequent deeds and patriotism above and beyond the call of duty inspired a whole generation of us who wanted to imitate his call to country. Unfortunately we walked into another time and the miasma of Vietnam. But that's another story for another time. Escape back to a time when the moral choices were clearer, and a real live hero was available to act his way memorably through an accurate recounting of his extraordinary if abbreviated military career. He may be gone too soon, the victim of a plane crash in the early 1970s, but his lifetime admirers remain. Enjoy!
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Summary: audie murphy's best movie
Review: This is one film that is ripe for a remake. But one thing should be kept in mind; even if you got Spielberg to direct it, Tom Hanks to produce it, and the most authentic WWII gear to make it look real, it would be missing the one thing the original movie has: Audie Murphy himself. This cinematic treatment of his ghostwritten World War II memoir of the same name differs in many ways from the book. Novak is killed when Murphy was in the hospital according to the book, but in the movie, he dies before Murphy's eyes. Audie is seen at the film's beginning taking care of the family; in truth, he was in orphanages. But again, the movie has Murphy. And for me, that's enough. Not too many heroes get to portray themselves on the screen. And Audie had enough acting ability to play himself on the screen (something Mickey Mantle or Jackie Robinson couldn't really do with all due respect). Still, it's a fun movie and it does give viewers Murphy's war experiences in a nice digestible hour and a half. Heck, even if half of what is portrayed on the screen was true, Murphy's war experiences would eclipse 99% of all the others (the guys of E Company in Band of Brothers are included here too). It's a good intro to Murphy's war career if somehow his book is too daunting or if one doesn't have the time.
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