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Memorial Day Weekend Podcast: Battleground
Hello, Ricochet, I bring you a conversation I recorded with former National Review publisher Jack Fowler about Battleground, the first major cinematic depiction of the Battle of the Bulge, a big box office, critical, and Oscar success in 1949. Also, a worthy attempt to help Americans remember WWII as a trial of national character. Enjoy the weekend–happy Memorial Day!
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Ricardo Montalban’s next movie part was excellent too. He played a Portueses Boston police investigator looking into a skeleton found on Cape Cod buried in the sand. It may be the first forensic procedural, as he teams up with a Harvard professor. If you haven’t seen it, you can find it also on TCM occasionally.
Liked that movie very much. Acknowledged that he was not the typical Boston cop but didn’t focus on the discrimination. Just get on with the job. Lots of good character actors in it. Charles Laughton’s wife who’s name I’m forgetting, etc.
I remember watching this movie in the early 70’s in high school and thinking that Jody would be getting home in 1974 soon. Now the time between when I first saw the film and WW2, is half as long as when I first watched it. Scary!
Elsa Lancaster of course.