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Drama, War

UK / English

David Niven	Lieutenant Jim Perry
Stanley Holloway	Pvt. Ted Brewer
James Donald	Pvt. Lloyd
John Laurie	Pvt. Luke
Leslie Dwyer	Pvt. Sid Beck
Hugh Burden	Pvt. Bill Parsons
Jimmy Hanley	Pvt. Geoffrey Stainer
William Hartnell	Sgt. Ned Fletcher
Reginald Tate	The Training Company Commanding Officer
Leo Genn	Captain Edwards

Director	Carol Reed
Producer	Stanley Haynes; John Sutro
Writer	Eric Ambler

Jim Perry, a lieutenant and former ordinary guy finds that he must learn to take a tough line in order to make his wildly diverse crew come together and understand the importance both of the war and of their place in it. Although it takes time and constant effort on the part of Perry and his sergeant, the eight men eventually overcome their different backgrounds and feelings, and transform themselves into a unit which performs its tasks with admirable skill and dexterity, preparing them for their battle against the Desert Fox in Africa.

Edition Details
Region	Any Region
Screen Ratio	1.33 Full Screen
Subtitles	None
Audio Tracks	Dolby Digital Mono [English]
Layers	Single Side, Single Layer
Nr of Disks/Tapes	1

Personal Details
Purchase Date	September 2008
Store	Torrent
Tags	XVid
Links	IMDB

The Immortal Battalion has a bit of a convoluted history. It started life as a training film, The New Lot, which ran 44 minutes. When Winston Churchill approached David Niven about creating a film that would do for the British Army what In Which We Serve had done for the Royal Navy, he contacted Carol Reed and suggested expanding The New Lot. The result, written by Eric Ambler and Peter Ustinov, was the acclaimed The Way Ahead. For its U.S. release, Way Ahead was edited to a shorter length and retitled The Immortal Battalion. In either of its feature length forms, the film is concerned with the training of a bunch of raw recruits into a capable and efficient fighting regiment. Told in a semi-documentary style, Battalion also features the screen debut of Trevor Howard.