Meanwhile, Bell (one of the men who was with Keck's squad) covertly scouts the summit of the hill by himself and assesses the Japanese stronghold.įurious at Staros's refusal to obey his command, Tall ventures up to Charlie Company's position, accompanied by his battalion executive officer, Captain John Gaff. Staros balks, stating that he will not commit his men to what he sees as a suicide mission. Tall orders Staros over the sound-powered field telephone to capture the bunker by frontal assault, at whatever cost. At another point, Sergeant Welsh attempts to rescue a dying soldier, only to provide him enough morphine to put him out of his misery. When they are fired upon, Keck reaches for a grenade on his belt and accidentally pulls the pin, then throws himself back so that he will be the only one killed by the concussion. One group, a squad led by Sergeant Keck, hides behind a knoll safe from enemy fire to await reinforcements. Many of the men are scattered in the carnage. Among the first killed is one of the platoon leaders, Lieutenant Whyte. Charlie Company storms up the hill, but are immediately repelled by heavy machine-gun fire. The attack commences at dawn the next day. The Japanese have placed bunkers at the top of the hill, and anyone attempting the climb will be cut down by machine-gun fire. The company soon finds their objective: Hill 210, a key enemy position. They march into the interior of the island, and along the way encounter natives and evidence of the ongoing Japanese presence. The company lands on Guadalcanal unopposed. Elsewhere on the ship, Lieutenant Colonel Tall, the aging battalion commander, mulls over the importance of the invasion, which he sees as his last chance for glory in combat. Among them is Private Bell, a married former officer Private Doll, a cocky soldier and Captain James Staros, the sensitive company commander. As they wait in the hold of a Navy transport ship, they contemplate their lives and the upcoming invasion. The men of C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division have been brought to the island of Guadalcanal as reinforcements in the campaign to secure Henderson Field, seize the island from the Japanese, and block off their route to Australia. Witt is not allowed to rejoin his unit, and is instead punitively assigned to act as a stretcher bearer for the upcoming campaign. He is found and imprisoned on a troopship by First Sergeant Welsh of his company.
In 1942, United States Army Private Witt goes AWOL from his unit to live among the carefree Melanesian natives in the South Pacific. On At the Movies, Gene Siskel called it "the greatest contemporary war film I've seen." Martin Scorsese ranked it as his second-favorite film of the 1990s. It won the Golden Bear at the 1999 Berlin International Film Festival. The Thin Red Line received generally positive reviews from critics, and was nominated for seven Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Film Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score and Best Sound. Principal photography took place in Queensland, Australia and in the Solomon Islands. The film was scored by Hans Zimmer and shot by John Toll.
By the final cut, footage of performances by Bill Pullman, Lukas Haas, and Mickey Rourke had been removed (one of Rourke's scenes was included in the special features outtakes of the Criterion Blu-ray and DVD release). Reportedly, the first assembled cut took seven months to edit and ran five hours. It co-stars Adrien Brody, George Clooney, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Jared Leto, John C. The film marked Malick's return to filmmaking after a 20-year absence. The novel's title alludes to a line from Rudyard Kipling's poem " Tommy", from Barrack-Room Ballads, in which he calls British foot soldiers "the thin red line of heroes", referring to the stand of the 93rd Regiment in the Battle of Balaclava of the Crimean War. soldiers of C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, played by Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas and Ben Chaplin. Telling a fictionalized version of the Battle of Mount Austen, which was part of the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II, it portrays U.S. It is the second screen adaptation of the 1962 novel of the same name by James Jones, following the 1964 film however, this film is not considered a remake. The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American epic war film written and directed by Terrence Malick.
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