The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
The studio, MGM, cut roughly forty minutes after disastrous preview screenings. Lillian Ross's book Picture, a long-form New Yorker series about the making of the film, has become more famous than the film itself.
Bill Mauldin appeared in The Red Badge of Courage and was primarily a cartoonist, winning two Pulitzer Prizes, whose Willie and Joe strips gave American soldiers their own voice during the war. General Patton attempted to have him censored, and Eisenhower overruled it.
Audie MurphyThe studio, MGM, cut roughly forty minutes after disastrous preview screenings. Lillian Ross's book Picture, a long-form New Yorker series about the making of the film, has become more famous than the film itself.
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