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Cast

Audie Murphy
as The Youth

Bill Mauldin
as The Loud Soldier

John Dierkes
as The Tall Soldier

Royal Dano
as The Tattered Man

Douglas Dick
as Lieutenant

Arthur Hunnicutt
as Bill Porter

Andy Devine
as Fat Soldier

Robert Easton
as Thompson

Dick Curtis

Smith Ballew
as Captain

Glenn Strange
as Colonel

Jim Hayward
as Union Soldier

Dan White
as Sergeant

I. Stanford Jolley

Frank McGraw
as Captain

Tim Durant
as General

Emmett Lynn

Gloria Eaton
as Southern Girl

Robert Cherry
as Soldier Who Sings

Joel Marston

Robert Nichols

Whit Bissell
as Wounded Officer

Lou Nova

William Phipps
as Officer

Ted Offenbecker

Ed Hinton
as Corporal

Lynn Farr
as Confederate Soldier

Buddy Roosevelt

Frank Sully

Guy Wilkerson

James Whitmore
as Narrator

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Critic Reviews for The Red Badge of Courage

Audience Reviews for The Red Badge of Courage

• Jun 20, 2018

  Audie Murphy and John Huston team up for this spectacular look at the power of the group over the individual. It's wartime, and a newbie recruit frets on whether he will perform to group expectation or not when battle time arrives. It's all easier said than done, eh? Huston, obviously influenced by Hemingway, keeps the anxiety quietly amped up throughout the effort but particularly during the battles scenes. Why has no one told me of this exemplary work before?!?
  Kevin M. W Super Reviewer
• Jan 25, 2009

  In spite of the studio's blasphemous 'recut' of John Huston's work, <i>The Red Badge of Courage</i> successfully illuminates the fragile psyche of the foot soldier in harm's way. Audie Murphy, given his own combat experience, seems perfectly cast as the civil war private battling fear and self-doubt while serving in a union regiment. Like the source material from which it sprang, this film is a study in humanity and man's astonishing ability to persevere.
  Randy T Super Reviewer
• Nov 04, 2007

  For 1951 it was a pretty great movie. It had a great behind it, and got it acrossed well. I felt it ended a little suddenly, and to me it seemed like there seemed to be something missing, though im not sure what, but overall, it was a film , for any civil war buff, too see.
  Bobby H Super Reviewer
• Nov 26, 2006

  Completely devoid of emotional impact and messily structured, but Huston's direction is solid and the cinematography is marvelous. The film's flaws are more a result of the studio's lack of vision than Huston's, but they're there nonetheless.
  Mike T Super Reviewer

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