Battle Cry

Battle Cry follows a group of young Marine recruits during the Second World War, from their harsh training in a San Diego camp through to combat in the Pacific. Major Sam Huxley drives the men hard, aware that they are eager for real action while the orders they receive keep them on the margins of the fighting. After training, the recruits get their first leave, and the film tracks their relationships and romances alongside their preparation for battle, building toward a landing on Saipan.

The film is an adaptation of Leon Uris's novel, with Uris himself writing the screenplay. Raoul Walsh directed and produced it with Jack L. Warner, placing it as the twentieth of the twenty-three features Walsh directed in chronological order, between Gun Fury and The Revolt of Mamie Stover. Van Heflin plays Major Huxley, with Aldo Ray, Mona Freeman, James Whitmore, Nancy Olson and Raymond Massey among a credited cast of sixty-nine. Released by Warner Bros. Pictures on 2 February 1955, it runs 149 minutes.

On TMDB the film holds a rating of 5.8 out of 10 from 27 votes, indicating a modest and limited response from the users who have logged it there.