The Doomed Battalion

19321932
1h 21m

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Tala Birell, Albert Conti, and Victor Varconi in The Doomed Battalion (1932)

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During World War 1, an Austrian Battalion holds a mountain stronghold against the attack of the Italian army.During World War 1, an Austrian Battalion holds a mountain stronghold against the attack of the Italian army.During World War 1, an Austrian Battalion holds a mountain stronghold against the attack of the Italian army.

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Directors
- Cyril Gardner
- Karl Hartl(original 1931 German version footage)
- Luis Trenker(original 1931 German version footage)
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- Karl Hartl(adaptation)
- Patrick Kearney(dialogue)
- Luis Trenker(story and adaptation)
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Luis Trenker and Victor Varconi in The Doomed Battalion (1932)

Luis Trenker in The Doomed Battalion (1932)

Tala Birell in The Doomed Battalion (1932)

Tala Birell, Luis Trenker, and Victor Varconi in The Doomed Battalion (1932)

Tala Birell and Victor Varconi in The Doomed Battalion (1932)

Tala Birell and Luis Trenker in The Doomed Battalion (1932)

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Directors
- Cyril Gardner
- Karl Hartl(original 1931 German version footage)
- Luis Trenker(original 1931 German version footage)
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- Karl Hartl(adaptation)
- Patrick Kearney(dialogue)
- Luis Trenker(story and adaptation)
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Alternate-language version of Berge in Flammen (1931)

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5/10

The Mountain Movie Goes To War

Luis Trenker loves climbing the Dolemites in Italy, but when World War One breaks out, he returns home to Austria Hungary, where he is assigned to a mountain fort. Soon it becomes the scene of a battle, where his old friend, Albert Conti, is ordered by the Italian high command to take the fort.

It's one of those movies that was made in three versions, one in French, one in German and this English-language version, the only one known to survive. It has all the markings of a Mountain Movie, with lots of beautiful pictures of snow-covered mountains. It also shows it's joins clearly, with lots of wild shots between staged scenes, and a lot of looping in the dialogue for people to talk.

Viewed as a visual effect, it is quite lovely, with DP Charles Stumar making the bleak mountains lovely, and lithely moving the camera to maintain composition in the story scenes. However, the two parts of the movie seem disjoint, and never quite come together.

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