Pros: Direction, Story, Ron Eldard, Supporting Cast Cons: Dialog is a little too modern for WWII
When Trumpets Fade does a great job of showing how, in wartime, the ones who think they are going to be heroes and the ones who actually become heroes are usually two different sets of people. Ron Eldard stars as Manning, a private with a...
Pros: Good cast, acting, sets, directing, pace and camera work. Cons: I didn't like one of the plot points, the deserter.
Sgt. Manning, Hot chow, coffee, cigarettes, we’re making another push. When Trumpets Fade 1998 HBO The Story When Trumpets Fade is set in the Hurtgen forest in the autumn of 1944. The Hurtgen Forest is was ...
Pros: story, characters, direction Cons: stereotypical confrontations, grim
HBO has a reputation for making the best made-for-TV films. "When Trumpets Fade" won't change that evaluation. It is an intense, grim war drama based on an obscure World War II battle with the Germans that cost 24,000 American lives. Continuing...
Pros: Good Performances, Strong Moral Issues Interestingly Explored, Horrors of War Depicted without Excess Gore Cons: Outrageous Plot Points
This cable movie isn't so much a war film as it is an allegorical tale.
Like most allegories it has to take some major factual leaps in order to make its point, so those leaps shouldn't be held against it.
The story here, about a private who...
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