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The Story of G.I. Joe

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for his combat reporting. Ernie again connects with the outfit after Cassino is finally taken. His reunion with the men is interrupted when a string of mules is led to them, each carrying the dead body of a G.I. to be placed on the ground. A final mule, led by Dondaro, bears the body of Walker. The
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The writing, as well as the direction, constantly shuns the romanticism that has colored almost every other war film. Nobody talks about the war, either as an aim, or as a matter of beating an enemy; in general they seem too tired to talk, and when they do it is in shorthand, avoiding the obvious,
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The Army agreed to Wellman's request for 150 soldiers, who were training in California for deployment to the Pacific and had all been veterans of the Italian campaign, as extras during the six weeks of filming in late 1944. The War Department allowed the men to grow beards for their roles. Wellman
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in a plane crash. The studio had wanted to place a leading-man type in the main role, but Wellman wanted a physically smaller man such as Meredith to better portray the middle-aged Pyle. As a compromise, Mitchum was chosen to play Bill Walker. The film was one of Mitchum's earliest starring roles.
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barrages. When his men are forced to eat cold rations for Christmas dinner, Walker obtains food for them at gunpoint. Casualties are heavy, and young replacements are quickly killed before they can learn how to survive in combat. Walker is always short of lieutenants, and the veterans lose men,
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Tobin (1997), p. 215, however, credits Wellman instead for coming up with this theme--and quotes him nearly word for word with the phrasing used by Suid--after Cowan had gotten off-track drawing up synopses that depicted Pyle as a wayward, drunken, and failing journalist at the start of the
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for the lead role but selected Meredith because he was lesser known. Meredith had been serving as a captain in the Army, and the Army refused to release him from active duty. According to Meredith, the Army was overruled by presidential advisor
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of the 36th Division's Company B 143rd Infantry. Waskow's death in combat on December 14, 1943, was the subject of Pyle's most famous column. Sgt. "Buck" Eversole was a platoon leader who became the subject of several of Pyle's stories.
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to be the film's director but after facing great difficulty in convincing Wellman to take the job. Cowan asked Ernie Pyle to contact Wellman. Pyle invited Wellman to his home, where he persuaded Wellman to accept the director role.
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While the screenwriters chose the 18th Infantry Regiment for the film, Pyle's favorite outfit was the 133rd Infantry Regiment of the 34th Infantry Division, a unit that he had covered in 1942 while it was still stationed in
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Ernie joins the company as it proceeds down the road, narrating its conclusion: "For those beneath the wooden crosses, there is nothing we can do, except perhaps to pause and murmur, 'Thanks pal, thanks.'"
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and is sent to the infirmary. Ernie returns to the correspondents' quarters to write a piece on Murphy's death and is told by his fellow reporters that he has won the
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insisted that actual soldiers speak much of the dialogue for authenticity. He also insisted that the film's Hollywood actors live and train with the soldiers.
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Casting for the role of Pyle began in June 1944. Pyle had pleaded: "For God's sake, don't let them make me look like a fool." Producer Lester Cowan considered
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Nine war correspondents are listed as technical advisors in the film's credits, three of whom appear in the scene in which Pyle learns that he has won the
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Pyle covered the 1st Infantry Division, including the 18th Infantry, in Tunisia from January to May 1943, and wrote a column on the American defeat at
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of Normandy, with the end of the war in sight, the script became more focused on Pyle's movements with the infantry in its final advance to victory.
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and Paige Cavanaugh, who selected details from Pyle's columns for inclusion in the film, Director William Wellman also worked directly with Pyle.
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The untested infantrymen of C Company, 18th Infantry, U.S. Army, board trucks to travel to the front for the first time. Lt. Bill Walker allows
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Attempts to write a script that would accurately translate Pyle's style and sentiments to the screen delayed filming for a year After the
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Ernie Pyle, himself a rookie to combat, to accompany them. Ernie follows the men all the way to the front lines through the rain and mud.
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for financial support and distribution of the proposed film. Cowan then developed a story outline based on Pyle's columns reproduced in
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in July 1943. However, after the Sicilian campaign, which is mentioned but not portrayed in the film, the 18th Infantry moved to
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is one of the only movies in years that says just about all it has to say, and drives it home with real cinematic strength.”
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The events in Italy portrayed in the film are based on Pyle's experiences with soldiers of the 36th Infantry Division in the
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Ernie comes to know the men about whom he will write, including Sgt. Warnicki and privates Dondaro, Mew and Murphy.
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Although filmed with Pyle's cooperation, the film premiered two months to the day after he was killed in action on
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which includes every great question like the danger of death and the separation from everybody they love.
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The screenplay was developed with the input of several war correspondents and associates of Pyle, mainly
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The film's concept originated with independent producer Lester Cowan, who approached the
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including Murphy. After a night patrol to capture a prisoner, Warnicki suffers a
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Sicily and Italy Combat Veterans of the Campaigns in Africa as Themselves
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The story is a tribute to the American infantryman (G.I. Joe) during
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Ernie Pyle, "In the Movies", Indiana University School of Journalism
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In August 1944, unable to complete the screenplay, Cowan recruited
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for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant.
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Guts and Glory: The Making of the American Military Image in Film
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soldiers express their grief in the presence of Walker's corpse.
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in September 1943 for cooperation in making a film about the
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Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber
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reprinted at the Indiana University School of Journalism
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Index

Poster depicting a soldier holding a small dog
William A. Wellman
Guy Endore
Ernie Pyle
Burgess Meredith
Robert Mitchum
Russell Metty
Louis Applebaum
Ann Ronell
United Artists
Ernie Pyle
war film
William A. Wellman
Burgess Meredith
Robert Mitchum
Academy Awards
World War II
Pulitzer Prize
war correspondent
Ernie Pyle
18th Infantry
Tunisia
Italy
National Film Registry
Library of Congress
war correspondent
Battle of Kasserine Pass
road in Italy
Monte Cassino
artillery

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