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Breakthrough (Warner Archive)
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Breakthrough (Warner Archive) (1950)
Starring:  David Brian, John Agar, Frank Lovejoy, William Campbell, Paul Picerni, Greg McClure, Richard Monahan, Edward Norris, Dick Wesson
Director:  Lewis Seiler
Genre:  Drama, Military/War, War Drama, World War II
Year:  1950
Studio:  Warner Home Video
Length:  91 minutes
Released:   January 29, 2010
Rating:  NR
Format:  DVD
Misc:  NTSC, Full Screen, Black & White
Language:  English(Original Language)
SYNOPSIS:
Months ago they hawked newspapers, baled hay or studied for an algebra exam. Now these young men are among 3-million Americans stationed in England…and poised on the brink of history. They’re in a platoon that trains and waits while the island nation groans under a swelling stockpile of munitions and supplies. Suddenly the wait is over – and the training, the equipment and the fighting men of Operation Overlord are put to the test. June 6, 1944: D-Day.

Featuring a talented cast and astonishing real-life footage of the Allied inavasion, Breakthrough (from Guadalcanal Diary director Lewis Seiler) follows a handful of GIs through the hellfire of Omaha Beach and across the Normandy peninsula. Inch by inch they claim the land. Inch by inch they consecrate it with bravery and blood.

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Emile
I watched this film as a boy. It visualizes the stories my father told me of his experiences before and after the D-Day invasion.It shows the changes young men went through to become harden soldiers. It shows the dangers and hardships the GIs faced during those early perilous days of the invasion and the entanglement of the Normandy hedgerows when nazism and the German Army was still a very powerful force on the continent of Europe. This film story thrilled me but also chilled me as we have never seen such a level of violence.
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