Der Kommandant

1960

The Mountain Road is a 1960 war film starring James Stewart and directed by Daniel Mann. Set in China and based on the 1958 novel of the same name by journalist-historian Theodore H. White, the film follows the attempts of a U.S. Army major to destroy bridges and roads potentially useful to the Japanese during World War II. White's time covering China for Time magazine during the war led to an interview with former OSS Major Frank Gleason Jr.,[2] who served as head of a demolition crew that inspired the story and film.[N 1] Gleason was later hired as an uncredited technical consultant for the film.[4]

The film is a rather somber treatment of World War II and includes themes that were taboo for Hollywood during the war years, such as tensions between allies and racism among American troops. The protagonist is a frustrated and morally conflicted U.S. officer unsure about the value of his mission. For these reasons, The Mountain Road is often labeled as anti-war, but it was made with the cooperation of the Pentagon, and it is much more respectful of the military as an institution than are the well-known anti-war films of the 1960s and 1970s.

As a World War II combat veteran, Stewart had vowed never to make a war film, concerned they were rarely realistic.[N 2] The Mountain Road was the only war movie set during World War II in which he starred as a combatant. Stewart, however, had been featured in a wartime short, Winning Your Wings (1942) and in a civilian role in Malaya (1949). Harry Morgan, another cast member in The Mountain Road, later said he believed that Stewart made an "exception for this film because it was definitely anti-war."[6]

Quelle: Wikipedia(englisch)
Kinostart:1960
weitere Titel:
The Mountain Road ast
Explosivt uppdrag
Tempesta sulla Cina
Commando de destruction
山路zh
Der Kommandant
Дорога в горах
Genre:Filmdrama, Kriegsfilm
Herstellungsland:Vereinigte Staaten
Originalsprache:Englisch
Farbe:Farbe, Schwarzweiß
IMDB: 885
Verleih:Columbia Pictures
Regie:Daniel Mann
Drehbuch:Alfred Hayes
Kamera:Burnett Guffey
Musik:Jerome Moross
Produzent:William Goetz
Darsteller:James Stewart
Lisa Lu
Glenn Corbett
Harry Morgan
Frank Silvera
James Best
Rudy Bond
Mike Kellin
Alan Baxter
Bill Quinn
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