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The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The title of Raoul Walsh's film would indicate a high level of visual war action, but the action in this film is more like a television soap: Peyton Place Meets Boot Camp. Battle Cry is not a bad film by any means, but a mainstream 50's romance, and because it is Walsh, there are excellent things to be found, as long as you don't expect superior battlefield heroics; Aldo Ray and Van Heflin both turn in finely-tuned performances, Ray as a macho player evolving into a loving husband, Van Heflin as a commander who fails to maintain distance from his charges; a young Tab Hunter caught on with teens when he was cast as heartthrob Danny Forrester, and acquits himself nicely.Three years later, Stanley Kubrick would make the stunning Paths of Glory, a WWI film that revealed the true brutality of battle, and Spielberg would change mainstream war films for all time with Saving Private Ryan; Battle Cry involves the willing viewer in an intelligent adaptation of a best-selling novel and as such, succeeds.

I saw this film in 1959 in a theater in Oceanside, Ca. I was in ITR, Los Polgas, Camp Pendleton. It was great then, but now, this 70 y/o watches it with a sad heart and a yearning for being back in. I recognized every building at Camp Pendleton, and much of the terrain. I'd walked, crawled and run over, around and through most of it. The San Diego ferry, now gone, was so neat. Believe it or not I used to catch to Grey Hound from Oceanburg to Dago, I had a sister that live at Imperial Beach. I'd take the ferry to Coronado. It was such a peaceful, serene short voyage, chance to gather one's thoughts. I do think the combat was well enough done, done so sure about all this blood and guts they show now. Even more so, the absence of the absolutely filthy language they feel they have to use now,aka "sewer pipe for a mouth", my analogy. We used a little profanity, but never filth like they do now. Didn't used to have to put that "some scenes my be objectable" stuff, the whole family could watch. Great movie, Semper Fi, especially to my brothers, the former Marine's. Keep your K-bar whet, and your haversack dry>

Battle Cry was one of my favorite movies ever since I can remember. The more time I have seen, the better I like it. It has an honest feel of a story told by an author that actually lived it. Leon Uris's tale about the love and devotion of the boys of the 6th Marine Regiment of the 2nd Marines in World War II.While some of the stories are a bit over simplified, the truth in the telling comes through very clearly. This is a tale of how both men and boys deal with the strains of training and the burden of combat.I think it would be very wrong to compare this film, as some have, with movies made in more modern times, even those made by Steven Spielberg. Spielberg's films were more realistic to be sure, with better combat footage and more realistic carnage. Many veterans have said how frightening they actually are because they tell the tale of battle so well. This film is not about combat it self, but rather the relationships of men that are forced to endure it.It is simply impossible to compare the two. See this film, and feel for Andy and Danny and L.Q. and Mac and the others as they help each other try to come home again to what really matters.

Perhaps 50 years on, Amercans have realised that New Zealanders have their own accent? Pat speaks standard Hollywood American, her parents some sort of English English - where did she learn her American English?I know this is a movie of its time and well-meaning, but to make no attempt with accents is just sloppyOtherwise it is an average movie - cannot understand how it was nominated for awards - I am sure there were many better movies in 1955IMDb insists I add extra lines so this is what I am adding - why am I not allowed to be pithy and succinct?