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Battle Circus is a american film of genre Drama directed by Richard Brooks released in USA on 6 march 1953 with Humphrey Bogart
Battle Circus (1953)
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Add to a movie listBattle Circus is a 1953 war film directed by Richard Brooks, who also wrote the screenplay. The movie stars Humphrey Bogart and June Allyson, and costars Keenan Wynn and Robert Keith.
The film is set in Korea during the Korean War. Bogart (in his sole film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) plays a surgeon and commander of Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) 8666 (shortened to "66" in the dialogue), with Allyson playing a newly arrived nurse. Despite their initial handicaps, their love flourishes against a background of war, enemy attacks, death and injury.
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A young Army nurse, Lieutenant Ruth McGara (June Allyson), is newly assigned to the 8666th MASH mobile field hospital, constantly on the move during the Korean War. At first, Ruth is a bumbling addition to the nurse corps, but attracts the attention of the unit's hard-drinking, no-nonsense chief surgeon Dr. and Major Jed Webbe (Humphrey Bogart). Jed cautions that he wants a "no strings" relationship and Ruth is warned by the other nurses of his womanizing ways. She sees that he is beloved by the unit, especially the resourceful Sergeant Orvil Statt (Keenan Wynn).Actors
Humphrey Bogart
(Major Jed Webbe)
June Allyson
(Lt. Ruth McGara)
Keenan Wynn
(Sgt. Orvil Statt)
Robert Keith
(Le Lieutenant-Colonel Hillary Whalters)
William Campbell
(Le Capitaine John Rustford)
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