Battle Circus [VHS]

Humphrey Bogart (Actor), June Allyson (Actor), Richard Brooks (Director, Writer) Rated:

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Actors: Humphrey Bogart, June Allyson, Keenan Wynn, Robert Keith, William Campbell
Directors: Richard Brooks
Writers: Richard Brooks, Allen Rivkin, Laura Kerr
Producers: Pandro S. Berman
Format: Black & White, Original recording reissued, NTSC
Rated:
NR
Not Rated
Number of tapes: 1
Studio: Warner Home Video
VHS Release Date: March 7, 2000
Run Time: 90 minutes
Average Customer Review: 47 customer reviews
ASIN: 0790747502
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #420,679 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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A deadly barrage of "incoming mail" draws nearer. The frontlines are moving, so Mobile Army Surgical Hospital 8666 must also move. And quickly. The wounded are evacuated. Tents are struck and loaded. And if there's no tim to strike it, burn it. Then, like circus wagons rolling through hell, the medical convoy risks ambush as it bumps and rumbles to its next encampment.

Humphrey Bogart and June Allyson star and Richard Brooks (Elmer Gantry, In Cold Blood) scripts and directs this stark tale of love and war that matches M*A*S*H in setting but not in tone. Allyson plays a wide-eyed nurse who arrives in Korea oblivious to the dangers. Bogey plays a careworn surgeon who numbs his feelings with booze and romantic dalliance. "Three world wars in one lifetime," he says. "Maybe whiskey's as much a part of our life as war." Year: 1953 Director: Richard Brooks Starring: Humphrey Bogart, June Allyson Special Feature: Original Theatrical Trailer

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This is the Original MASH movie

BySignalshifteron June 6, 2014

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the producers of this movies decided they could not call this movie MASH they thought people would think of mashed potatoes. This 1953 film Chronicles the trials and tribulation of MASH 8666 and the relationship between Maj. Jed Webbe ( Humphrey Bogart ) and Lt. Ruth McGara (June Allyson) June Allyson reprises the roll she was famous for at the time, a wide eye lady a little naive but with a core of steel. Playing this roll against the forceful character of Humphrey Bogart does not come off too well at times. Always in the back of my mind is her roll as Sally Holland the long suffering wife of Lt. Col. Robert (Dutch) Holland (James Stewart) Strategic Air Command 1955. Having said this the movie is entertaining and a real contrast to MASH 1970. One of Humphrey Bogart lesser known rolls.

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This movie clearly influenced the TV show Ma....

Bybook loveron December 30, 2016

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... Maude. I'm rating this movie 4.5 stars. I thought it was well done, except Bogart came on a little too strong with June Allyson. Maybe that was accurate for the times and circumstances. I don't know. In today's world, he'd be in some deep sh*&. Not one of Bogart's better known films, but a real good one nonetheless.