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May 28, 2010
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- United States
- 1998
- 171 minutes
- Color
- 2.35:1
- English
- Spine #536
SYNOPSIS: After directing two of the most extraordinary movies of the 1970s, Badlands and Days of Heaven, American artist Terrence Malick disappeared from the film world for twenty years, only to resurface in 1998 with this visionary adaptation of James Jones’s 1962 novel about the World War II battle for Guadalcanal. A big-budget, spectacularly mounted epic, The Thin Red Line is also one of the most deeply philosophical films ever released by a major Hollywood studio, a thought-provoking meditation on man, nature, and violence. Featuring a cast of contemporary cinema’s finest actors—Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas, and Woody Harrelson among them—The Thin Red Line is a kaleidoscopic evocation of the experience of combat that ranks as one of the greatest war films ever produced.
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Cast
| 1st Sgt. Edward Welsh | Sean Penn |
| Cpl. Fife | Adrien Brody |
| Pvt. Witt | Jim Caviezel |
| Pvt. Bell | Ben Chaplin |
| Capt. Charles Bosche | George Clooney |
| Capt. John Gaff | John Cusack |
| Sgt. Keck | Woody Harrelson |
| Capt. James “Bugger” Staros | Elias Koteas |
| 2nd Lt. Whyte | Jared Leto |
| Pfc. Doll | Dash Mihok |
| Pvt. Tillis | Tim Blake Nelson |
| Lt. Col. Gordon Tall | Nick Nolte |
| Sgt. Storm | John C. Reilly |
| Pvt. Mazzi | Larry Romano |
| Sgt. McCron | John Savage |
| Brig. Gen. Quintard | John Travolta |
| Pvt. Charlie Dale | Arie Verveen |
Credits
| Director | Terrence Malick |
| Screenplay | Terrence Malick |
| Based on the novel by | James Jones |
| Producer | Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau and Grant Hill |
| Executive producer | George Stevens and Jr. |
| Director of photography | John Toll |
| Production designer | Jack Fisk |
| Editing | Billy Weber, Leslie Jones and Saar Klein |
| Casting | Dianne Crittenden |
| Music | Hans Zimmer |
| Costume designer | Margot Wilson |
| Associate producer | Michael Stevens |
| First assistant director | Skip Cosper |
| Art direction | Ian Gracie |
| Production manager | Vicki Popplewell |
Disc Features
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by director Terrence Malick and cinematographer John Toll (with DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- New audio commentary by Toll, production designer Jack Fisk, and producer Grant Hill
- Interviews with several of the film’s actors, including Kirk Acevedo, Jim Caviezel, Thomas Jane, Elias Koteas, Dash Mihok, and Sean Penn; composer Hans Zimmer; editors Billy Weber, Leslie Jones, and Saar Klein; and writer James Jones’s daughter Kaylie Jones
- New interview with casting director Dianne Crittenden, featuring archival audition footage
- Fourteen minutes of outtakes from the film
- World War II newsreels from Guadalcanal and the Solomon Islands
- Melanesian chants
- Original theatrical trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic David Sterritt and a 1963 reprint by James Jones
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Press Notes: The Thin Red Line
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