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Happy Memorial Day, everyone. I thought this was a good day to write about Lewis Milestone's 1945 film A Walk in the Sun. It is set during Operation Avalanche, the Allied invasion of Sicily during World War Two. It follows a platoon of infantry who land on the beach near Salerno and have to fight their way to a farmhouse on a hill. They don't know what is in the farmhouse. Men die, are wounded and suffer from shell shock along the way. Robert Ryan is a sergeant who has to assume command when the officer leading the platoon is seriously wounded on the beach. Ryan is surrounded by a team of excellent actors, including Norman Lloyd, Richard Conte, Lloyd Bridges and Sterling Holloway. Even Huntz Hall of the Bowery Boys has a small part. Eventually they make it.
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