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  • DVD Release Date: 05/03/2005
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Side #1 -- Battle of the Bulge
1. Overture [2:37]
2. Credits [2:56]
3. Aerial Reconnaissance [5:40]
4. Hidden Headquarters [4:25]
5. American Soldiers [2:52]
6. 50-Hour Plan [3:36]
7. Fresh Information [4:50]
8. How Sure? [3:44]
9. Panzerlied [3:52]
10. Guffy's Merchandise [2:29]
11. A Little Exercise [2:56]
12. Courtesan First Class [2:51]
13. Beef Between Colonels [6:01]
14. Starting the Clock [3:05]
15. Enemy Contact [4:33]
16. Kiley's Tiger [1:59]
17. Weak Resistance [4:01]
18. Out of Line [3:08]
19. As Hard as Our Tanks [4:02]
20. Where Hessler Is [1:45]
21. Securing the Bridge [4:20]
22. Heavy Bridge Toll [4:41]
23. Setbacks [3:24]
24. Slaughter in the Snow [3:00]
25. In Business and Love [:27]
26. Making a Stand [4:44]
27. Stopped in its Tracks [3:26]
28. Bombardment Begins [2:37]
29. Chocolate Cake [3:23]
30. Intermission [2:49]
31. Taking Ambleve [2:27]
32. Fathers for Sons [5:30]
33. No Time for Trouble [4:21]
34. Their Weakness [3:18]
35. "Nuts." [4:12]
36. Stay Loose [2:27]
37. Our Victory Our Home [3:47]
38. Flying in Zero Visibility [3:22]
39. Traitor and Murderer [6:26]
40. Tank Showdown [4:02]
41. All Busted Up [5:03]
42. Stay Off My Tank [2:44]
43. Familiar Face [3:51]
44. Burn It! [2:50]
45. Walking Back to Germany [4:29]
46. Dedication and Cast List [2:17]
47. Exit Music [:47]
Side #2 -- Battlground
1. Credits and Dedication [2:06]
2. The Drill [4:21]
3. Tent Work [5:31]
4. Secret Move [4:38]
5. Bastogne [3:08]
6. Good Night, Soldier [5:25]
7. Strategic Withdrawals [3:00]
8. Digging In [5:42]
9. Shared Eggs [4:15]
10. Sad News [4:29]
11. Incoming Mail [4:40]
12. What's the Password? [2:35]
13. Pitching Snowballs [3:05]
14. Enemy in Their Midst [4:18]
15. Passing of the Helmet [4:04]
16. Returning for Rodriguez [3:49]
17. Against the Rules [:11]
18. By the Embankment [4:44]
19. Under Attack [4:07]
20. Surprising the Enemy [4:22]
21. Wanting to Remember [2:59]
22. Answer "Nuts." [4:50]
23. Christmas Card [6:01]
24. Was This Trip Necessary? [2:56]
25. Bombing Bastogne [3:38]
26. Sunlight and Supplies [4:47]
27. About Face [7:16]
28. Drill to the Rear [4:30]
29. Cast List [1:35]
Side #3 -- The Big Red One, Disc 1
1. Credits [1:28]
2. 1918: War's End [4:10]
3. His Wetnoses [2:57]
4. North Africa Beach [4:41]
5. Killing, Not Murder [3:13]
6. Sing Us a Lullaby [3:25]
7. Amphitheater Siege [4:27]
8. No Ears, No Backtalk [3:47]
9. Digging In [5:49]
10. Sergeant of Arbia [5:31]
11. Sicily: Tag Team Combat [4:19]
12. Village Sniper [3:22]
13. Smitty's Still Got It [3:03]
14. Help From the Navy [6:59]
15. The Big Gun [6:01]
16. Targeting the Gun Crew [2:41]
17. Heroes for an Hour [4:25]
18. D-Day, Omaha Beach [5:01]
19. Bangalore Torpedo [7:37]
20. He Wrote the Book [2:37]
21. Into a Trap [:14]
22. Sgt. Possum Strikes Back [1:08]
23. It's a Boy [4:03]
24. Asylum in Belgium [4:18]
25. Following Ben Franklin's Lead [5:25]
26. Camera Eye [7:03]
27. Hurtgen Forest [2:51]
28. Killing His Killer [1:43]
29. Party Instructions [3:46]
30. Take the Hill [2:42]
31. Infiltrator [3:46]
32. Volksturm and Schnapps [3:14]
33. Candid Countess [3:30]
34. Castle Sniper [3:54]
35. Czechoslovakia [4:36]
36. Trigger Effect [3:52]
37. Father Figure [2:32]
38. Survivors [4:54]
39. End Credits [6:23]
Side #4 -- The Big Red One, Disc 2
1. Introduction [1:15]
2. Meeting Sam [5:33]
3. The Survivors [9:04]
4. Lee Marvin [7:09]
5. The Reconstruction [6:52]
6. Picture Restoration [4:33]
7. Sound Restoration [5:19]
8. Musical Score [4:53]
9. Closing [2:12]
10. End Credits [:27]
1. Heat of the Story [3:39]
2. Newspaperman [Park Row]. [1:57]
3. I Shot Jesse James [6:00]
4. Verboten! [1:47]
5. The Steel Helmet [5:19]
6. Fixed Bayonets [2:52]
7. Pickup on South Street [8:27]
8. Run of the Arrow [1:19]
9. Forty Guns [5:49]
10. Shock Corridor, The Naked Kiss [4:51]
11. The Big Red One [10:49]
12. Survivor; End Credits [2:05]
Side #5 -- The Dirty Dozen
1. Opening Logos [:19]
2. Hanging With Reisman [2:13]
3. Project Amnesty [9:04]
4. Main Titles [3:24]
5. Deadhead Drill [4:00]
6. Happy, Smiling Faces [9:00]
7. Three Ways to Go [4:24]
8. Home Construction [4:24]
9. Einsam [2:01]
10. Going to the Can [1:59]
11. Rope Trick [1:47]
12. Picking on Posey [8:25]
13. No Soap [3:46]
14. Top Secret Operation [1:37]
15. General Inspection [7:12]
16. Latrine Beating [3:02]
17. The Bramble Bush [2:09]
18. Graduation Ball [4:46]
19. Breed Contempt [7:04]
20. Six-Week Review [3:40]
21. Divisional Maneuvers [16:49]
22. The Last Supper [2:51]
23. The Mission Begins [5:16]
24. At the Chateau [6:11]
25. Scaling the Roof [9:19]
26. Wolfgang? [3:26]
27. Judgment Day [3:08]
28. Locked in the Bunker [6:04]
29. Gasoline & Grenades [6:24]
30. "Blow It!" [1:19]
31. Taking Their Leave [3:36]
32. End Credits [:43]
Side #6 -- Where Eagles Dare
1. Mountainous Credits [3:01]
2. Damned Important Job [5:15]
3. Parachute Drop [3:55]
4. One Man Down [3:39]
5. Rendezvous [4:22]
6. Castle View [4:23]
7. Our Best Agent [2:07]
8. Strictly Army Matter [4:07]
9. Infiltration [3:54]
10. The Major's Business [3:52]
11. Carefully Arranged [3:58]
12. Second Man Down [1:31]
13. Better Chance Outside [3:19]
14. Car Trouble [4:05]
15. Rank Defiance [4:48]
16. Live Wire [2:35]
17. Wheels for an Escape [1:39]
18. Hitching a Ride [5:45]
19. Above it All [4:22]
20. Scaling the Wall [3:35]
21. Quick Radio Room Work [4:15]
22. Gen. Carnaby [2:14]
23. Things to Talk About [:24]
24. Enter Schmidt [2:58]
25. Divulging the Plot [2:02]
26. Working With Both Sides [6:30]
27. The Upper Hand [3:01]
28. Fistfuls of Dynamite [4:15]
29. Corridor Siege [4:40]
30. Castlewide Chaos [4:24]
31. Slipping Out [4:58]
32. Schaffer Overpowered [3:23]
33. Cable Car Clash [4:48]
34. Four Going Down [3:36]
35. Wet at the Bottom [4:53]
36. Express Escape Bus [2:34]
37. Booby-Trap Road [3:37]
38. Bridge Disposal [2:03]
39. A Plane to Catch [3:32]
40. Missing Name [5:26]
41. His Long Drop [2:37]
42. Cast List [3:38]

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Editorial Reviews

Incoming MGM production head Dore Schary ramrodded Battleground into the studio's schedule over the virulent protests of MGM boss Louis Mayer. The result was an award-winning box-office hit, as well as the beginning of the end of Mayer's power. This dramatization of the battles of Bastogne and the Bulge in the waning days of World War II concentrates on a single infantry unit. Van Johnson and John Hodiak are the ostensible stars, but the film is stolen by James Whitmore as the cigar-chomping, battle-stained sergeant. Also appearing is Ian MacDonald as General McAuliffe, whose legendary response to the Nazi's suggestion that the Americans surrender consisted of a single four-letter expletive: "Nuts." Whitmore's final scenes of near-delirium before the relief troops arrive are unforgettable. Battleground tries within MGM limits to be wholly realistic, though it is slightly compromised by the scripters' inability to use Army profanity, and by pointless subplot involving actress Denise Darcel. The film doesn't hold up as well as such wartime efforts as The Story of GI Joe or Walk in the Sun, but in 1949 Battleground was regarded as an important milestone in the field of truthful, de-glamorized combat flicks. Please avoid the colorized version: this is a black-and-white subject if ever there was one. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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