Actors: James Garner, Jack Warden, Etchika Choureau, Edd Byrnes, Torin Thatcher, Stuart Whitman, Murray Hamilton
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Darby's Rangers
Directed by William A. Wellman in 1957. Major William Darby manages to convince the military hierarchy in Washington to let him constitute a new section in the U.S. army : The Rangers. This section would be created on the model of the well known British commandos. Darby goes then to England, search for volunteers and ends up with hundreds of soldiers eager to try their chance.
The training, carried out by an English officer in Scotland, is very hard. Many soldiers leave, exhausted, the Rangers during this period. The training often takes place during the night and under the rain. After several months of intense sparring, the Rangers are sent to North Africa for their first mission consisting in cleaning out a beach from the enemy machine-guns a few hours before the arrival of the regular army. The Rangers are then sent to Sicily, then to Italy. This new section is always way ahead of the main troops and loses a lot of soldiers during this peculiar mission. The subplots of DARBY' S RANGERS describe the love affairs of some Rangers in England and Italy with young local girls.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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Analysis of Darby's Rangers
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Plot
Composition of Movie Actual chase scenes or violence - 30% Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20% Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 50%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1930's-1950's
War Thriller
Yes
Armed Forces:
- Special Forces
Specific to
- WW II
Training/Promotion story?
Yes
Kinds of training/promotion:
- military
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- senior military
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- average (man)
Events of movie makes character more...
- happy
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- enemy army
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Italy
- England/UK
Misc setting
- fort/military installation
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Kind of violence:
- land battles
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Check here if B&W
Yes
Any profanity?
- None
Is this movie based on a
- book
