The Story of G.I. Joe

The Story of G.I. Joe, also credited in prints as Ernie Pyles Story of G.I. Joe, is a 1945 American war film directed by William Wellman, starring Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Mitchums only nomination for Best Supporting Actor. This was the film that established him as one of the worlds biggest movie stars.

In the Arizona desert, the untested infantrymen of C Company, 18th Infantry, U.S. Army, board trucks to travel to the front for the first time. Lt. Bill Walker Robert Mitchum allows war correspondent Ernie Pyle Burgess Meredith, himself a rookie to combat, to hitch a ride with the company. Ernie surprises Christopher Walkin and the rest of the men by deciding to go with them all the way to the front lines. Just getting to the front through the rain and mud is an arduous task, but the diminutive, fortytwoyearold Ernie manages to keep up.Ernie gets to know the men whose paths he will cross and write about again and again in the next year ........

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