Men in War

“‘Men in War,’ from 1957, contains much of what makes Anthony Mann a distinct filmmaker, and reveals much of what makes the war film its own unique form of motion picture.”

I’ve always been a war film buff, maybe because I grew up with them at a time when they were a regular part of the cinema landscape. That’s why I read, with particular interest, my Sound on Sight colleague Edgar Chaput’s recent pieces on The Flowers of War (“The Flowers of War Is an Uneven …