Home of the Brave (1949 film)

Home of the Brave is a 1949 film based on a 1946 play by Arthur Laurents. It was directed by Mark Robson and stars Douglas Dick, Jeff Corey, Lloyd Bridges, Frank Lovejoy, James Edwards, and Steve Brodie. The original play featured the protagonist being Jewish rather than black.

Undergoing psychoanalysis by an Army psychiatrist Corey, paralyzed Black war veteran Private Peter Moss Edwards begins to walk again only when he confronts his fear of forever being an outsider.The film uses flashback techniques to show Moss, an Engineer topography specialist assigned to a reconnaissance patrol who are clandestinely landed from a PT boat on a Japaneseheld island in the South Pacific to prepare the island for a major amphibious landing. The patrol is led by a young major Dick and includes Mosss lifelong white friend Finch Bridges, whose death leaves him racked with guilt redneckbigot corporal T.J. Brodie and sturdy but troubled Sergeant Mingo Lovejoy. ........

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