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The Naked and the Dead is a 1958 World War II film directed by Raoul Walsh, and based on the 1948 novel of the same name by Norman Mailer. The screenplay was written by brothers Denis and Terry Sanders, and the film was shot in Panama on Technicolor film. [3] The movie adds a strip tease and an action scene to the story in the novel.
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Naked and the Dead, The - (Original Trailer) A green lieutenant comes up against incompetent officers and a sadistic sergeant during World War II in The Naked and the Dead (1958), directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Aldo Ray.
While stationed at a U.S. Army base on an island in the Pacific, idealistic Lieutenant Hearn (Cliff Robertson) has the nerve to question the morality of his mentor, grizzled veteran General...
Aldo Ray, Cliff Robertson and Raymond Massey are soldiers at odds with one another in “The Naked and the Dead,” available on Blu-ray via the Warner Archive Collection. It’s 1943 and America is island hopping in the Pacific during WWII.
Play Trailer. Youth and love and wartime-- the best-seller that electrified seven million readers! Overview. Fighting men in World War II learn the value of courage and quickness at the risk of losing their lives. Raoul Walsh. Norman Mailer. Terry Sanders. Denis Sanders.
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It was the first popular novel about the war and is considered one of the greatest English-language novels. [4] It was adapted into a film in 1958. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked The Naked and the Dead 51st on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.