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Actors: Jack Palance, Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin, Robert Strauss, Richard Jaeckel, Peter van Eyck
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Attack |
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ATTACK is a movie produced and directed by Robert Aldrich in 1956. The picture won the Italian Film Critics award and was nominated for the Golden Lion at the 1956 Venice Film Festival.
Lt. Joe Costa must deal with the cowardlyness of the company's Capt. Eddie Albert. When Albert's behaviour causes the death of most of the men of Costa's platoon, Costa won't let Albert get away with it.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Attack |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
War Thriller
Yes
Armed Forces:
- Army
Specific to
- WW II
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- muscular (man)
How much in movie?
- 20%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
- emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 90%-100%
Hair color
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Dumb
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- in awe
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
Kind of violence:
- land battles
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Check here if B&W
Yes
Is this movie based on a
- play
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