![]() Jimmy Stewart is taking supplies to settlers for their survival and his own and Ryan is essentially doing the same thing in this film. Men in War is probably best compared to Bend in the River. The film is directed by Anthony Mann, best known for his westerns in the Fifties that mostly starred James Stewart. The remainder of the film is how these two guys who grate on each other's nerves, but manage to work together. ![]() Ray is a good fighting man, but very insolent. Ryan commandeers both Ray and the jeep for his needs. Also retreating are Sergeant Aldo Ray in a jeep with a shell-shocked Colonel Robert Keith. These GIs are not battling for any glory, but simply for survival. Robert Ryan is a lieutenant leading a small group of survivors who are caught behind enemy lines to safety. We had few enough forces and they were driven to what became known as the Pusan perimeter in 1950 when General MacArthur pulled off the two pronged counterattack out of the perimeter and from the landings at Inchon. ![]() Through a combination of bad diplomacy and an understandable war weariness from World War II, the USA was caught completely off guard when the Communist North Korean government attacked the Southern forces that we were training.
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