Old Movie Buff

A Walk in the Sun, 1945


This is the war movie, the opposite of Saving Private Ryan.  The title song is useless and too oft repeated, but that could be replaced for future re-releases.  The soldiers grumble, complain, and not a positive word is said of the war effort without a sardonic or sarcastic tone.  The whole movie is about a platoon who lands in Salerno and is told to take a farmhouse, six miles away.  It's not that the idea behind WWII is unimportant, it is that it is completely unimportant to someone trying to complete a mission and survive.



During the war itself, most war movies were over-the-top patriotic, but this, as some IMDB reviewers have it, is the war from the soldier's perspective.  Another commenter writes "My uncle, a veteran of Tunisia who went into Salerno as a Ranger, hated most war films, but not this one."