Slideshow
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE
Friday, February 21
2:10
Sunday, February 23
6:00
Friday, February 28
6:00
Based on the novel by Stephen Crane. The making of Huston’s film was the subject of a celebrated multi-part 1952 New Yorker article, “No. 1512,” by the New Yorker staff writer Lillian Ross, later published in book form as “Picture.”
U.S., 1951
Directed by John Huston
Based on The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
With Audie Murphy, Bill Mauldin, Royal Dano
Approx. 69 min. 35mm.
A young Union soldier fights to atone for a moment of cowardice during the Civil War.
Presented with support from the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film and the Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s
Reviews
“Some 70 minutes remain of John Huston’s film version of Stephen Crane’s Civil War classic, and much of it is breathtaking.”
– Pauline Kael
“A curiously moody, arty study of the psychological birth of a fighting man from a frightened boy.”
– Variety
THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE
Introduced by New Yorker articles editor Susan Morrison
Friday, February 28
6:00