The Thin Red Line (1998)

The Thin Red Line Synopsis The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American epic war film written and directed by Terrence Malick. Based on the novel by James Jones, it tells a fictionalized version of the Battle of Mount Austen, which was part of the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II. It portrays soldiers of C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. The title echoes a line from Rudyard Kipling's poem "Tommy", from Barrack-Room Ballads, in which he calls foot soldiers "the thin red line of heroes", referring to the stand of the 93rd Regiment in the Battle of Balaclava of the Crimean War. Director: Terrence Malick Writers James Jones (novel), Terrence Malick (screenplay) Stars Jim Caviezel, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte Purchase The Thin Red Line DVD The Thin Red Line (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Further Information IMDB: The Thin Red Line Rotten Tomatoes: The Thin Red Line Wikipedia: The Thin Red Line

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