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Battle Stations (film)

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Battle Stations
Directed byLewis Seiler
Screenplay byCrane Wilbur
Based ona story by Ben Finney
Produced byBryan Foy
StarringJohn Lund
William Bendix
Keefe Brasselle
Richard Boone
William Leslie
CinematographyBurnett Guffey, A.S.C.
Edited byJerome Thoms, A.C.E.
Music byMischa Bakaleinikoff
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Production
company
Distributed byColumbia Pictures Corporation
Release date
  • February 1, 1956 (1956-02-01)
Running time
81 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Battle Stations is a 1956 American war film directed by Lewis Seiler and starring John Lund, William Bendix and Keefe Brasselle.[1] It was produced and distributed by Columbia Pictures. It took inspiration from the 1944 documentary film The Fighting Lady.[2]

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Cast

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Critical response

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Writing in AllMovie, author and film critic Hal Erickson described the film as "a standard wartime melodrama with the usual assortment of cliches," noting that "the economies in Battle Stations extend to its opening-credit music, which has been lifted bodily from Max Steiner's score for The Caine Mutiny."[3] Film review site The Movie Scene described the film as having "that same sense of patriotism and propaganda about it which those movies made during WWII had," that "it feels like who ever wrote it had watched dozens of other movies about life at sea during the war, picked out all the bits which they liked right down [to] the music and then slotted them together," and that it "delivers plenty of cliche."[4]

References

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  1. ^ Fetrow p.34
  2. ^ Paris p.163
  3. ^ Erickson, Hal. "Battle Stations (1956)". AllMovie. Netaktion LLC. Retrieved 2023-09-07.
  4. ^ "Battle Stations (1956)". The Movie Scene. The Movie Scene. Retrieved 2023-09-07.

Bibliography

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  • Fetrow, Alan G. Feature Films, 1950-1959: A United States Filmography. McFarland, 1999.
  • Paris, Michael. From the Wright Brothers to Top Gun: Aviation, Nationalism, and Popular Cinema. Manchester University Press, 1995.
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