Rewind, Review, and Re-Rate: ‘A Walk in the Sun’: A Thought-Provoking World War II Drama

A U.S. World War II platoon making its way across Italian countryside, in “A Walk in the Sun.” 20th Century Fox

Not Rated | 1h 57min | Drama, War | 1945

Many World War II films from the 1940s and ’50s—at least those set in the overseas theaters of war—follow a pattern: focusing on external events with little insight into what the main characters are thinking and feeling. With his “Walk in the Sun,” director Lewis Milestone (“All Quiet on the Western Front,” “Of Mice and Men”) offers up a different kind of war movie.