I came across this movie poster. Anyone seen this movie?

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Interesting! I never heard of that movie. Wow! Made in 1951, so they actually shot this during the war?

I've seen many documentaries, but the only movie about Korea I can remember off the top of my head was one called IN-CHON back in 1981 (as in the Incheon we know now that has the airport). That and...ah! A Korean favorite: Remo Williams! That movie was simply hilarious. Everyone must learn the ancient martial art called "Sinanju"! I wonder where they came up with that? It's some North Korean city/town in reality.

Check out IMDB.com. They'd probably have more info on it. You may have enter an actor's name. Before I clicked on the topic, I thought it was some recent anti-USFK movie.

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If you look at MASH close it is really a statement on Vietnam in the undertones of the story lines. Thereare the non Korean hats worn in the field and a few other things in the movie and the series that made comitary on the War in Viet Nam.

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Synopsis

The Korean conflict was in its eighth month when Columbia rushed through the timely "B" picture A Yank in Korea. The title character is one Andy Smith, played by Lon McAllister. Already a war hero, Andy causes dissention in the ranks because of his reckless bravado. It's up to sergeant Kirby (William "Bill" Phillips) to teach Andy the value of being a team player. Andy proves his true mettle during a climactic raid on a communist ammo dump. Essentially an all-male show, A Yank in Korea offers a smidgen of romantic interest in the form of Andy's wife Peggy, played by Sunny Vickers. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

http://movies.msn.com/movies/movie.aspx?m=54717

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N.Y. TIMES REVIEW
A Yank in Korea
Published: April 2, 1951

Since the dead are mute evidence that the war in Korea is still hot, "A Yank in Korea" can be listed as timely fare. But it is also contemporary in the sense that any minor Hollywood item replete with simulated G. I.'s and their enemies is contemporary. For this dramatization of what the conflict might be like is merely a picturization of a series of actions on that beleaguered peninsula which, despite a few realistic sequences, are trite and unconvincing.

Although it is dedicated to Pfc. John J. McCormick, whose letter to his children, written before he died in Korea, was a beautiful and moving testament, this adventure does not deal with his career. It is, instead, an uninspired account of a mechanically minded youngster inducted into the Army on his marriage day and then whisked off to a Korean outpost. It is also the story of his tough but understanding sergeant, a married man who has fought in World War II and is now willingly shouldering a gun because he feels this is the only way to preserve his way of life. And it also is the story of his platoon mates.

But Lon McCallister is a youth on whom fortune smiles unceasingly. No sooner does he arrive than he becomes a hero, single-handedly saving the company ambushed on patrol. Although he pulls an unintentional boner, he immediately snaps back and helps his pals blow up an ammunition dump and later fix a locomotive and drive it away under the fire of the enemy. And it is also his duty to read the letter of his sergeant, killed defending the train, to the latter's children. The letter, as has been noted, is simple and heartfelt.

William (Bill) Phillips, who plays the retread sergeant, also does his job simply and bluntly. But McCallister's mates are stock characters in stock situations. But they can't be blamed much, since they are forced by the script and the direction to fight a war which, by and large, seems staged.

http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movie...B266838A649EDE

http://www.greenwood.com/catalog/GR0316.aspx

Here's a book written about Korean War movies. Doesn't sound interesting enough to go through the trouble and expense of buying it, but I wouldn't mind paging through it if I saw it at a library.

According to this write up, 84 Korean War films were made.

what!? your forgetting M*A*S*H*!? that was even filmed in korea (the movie not the tv show)

and i'm guessing that movie is about the incheon landing where they had to wait for high tide to make sure they could get passed the barriers

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Ah, you're right! MASH did pop up in my head, but I thought "TV Show" and forgot about the movie.