Heartbreak Ridge
Summary:
Having spent much of his directorial career emulating Don Siegel and John Ford, Clint Eastwood borrows a page from the catalogue of Sam Fuller in Heartbreak Ridge. Eastwood casts himself as an old-fashioned Marine Corps sergeant who is out of step with the new-fashioned military. He returns to his old outfit as a gunnery sergeant, where he runs afoul of 1980s-style superio... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Clint Eastwood - (Tom Highway)
Marsha Mason - (Aggie)
Everett McGill - (Maj. Powers)
Moses Gunn - (Sgt. Webster)
Eileen Heckart - (Little Mary)
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Review:
Clint Eastwood takes the old plot about the tough Marine drill sergeant trying to whip a bunch of new recruits into shape and manages to inject some life into it. He stars as Sgt. Tom Highway, a misanthropic misfit who has sacrificed his wife, family, friends, and everything else to his life in the Corps. Appropriately enough, he's assigned t... Continue >>
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