The Naked and the Dead Full Movie

Dennis Schwartz 11 Jan 2010

Waters down Norman Mailer's 721 page salty 1948 bestseller novel based on his own experiences during WW II in the South Pacific.

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Grant S 29 Sep 2011

Goodish, but not great. Had a decent central plot, but the sub-plots were overwraught. The characters of the general, lieutenant and staff sergeant were too extreme, yet stereotypical. All the personal confrontations seemed contrived. Moreover, every philosophical point was made in a speech-laden preachy sort of way. Some subltety would have been great. Allied to this is the paint-by-numbers acting of Cliff Robertson and Raymond Massey, as the Lieutenant and the General, respectively. Aldo Ray was pretty good as the staff sergeant though. This all said, the battle scenes are very good, and feel realistic. The director should probably have concentrated on making a war movie, rather than making some (ultimately lame) statement about power and leadership.

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Michael E. Grost 27 May 2005

Powerful anti war drama, with great landscape photography

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Isabel Quigly 15 Jul 2018

A good, appropriately ape-like cast working through two hours and ten minutes to a moral and moderately happy ending that looks (when you compare it with the tone of the rest) unbearably contrived.

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Matt Brunson 09 Sep 2018

A flawed yet fascinating motion picture, one that traffics in gritty intensity yet also makes room for the expected concessions to convention and cliche.

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