When Trumpets Fade

1998 "In the heat of battle not all soldiers can be heroes."
7| 1h35m| R| en| More Info
Released: 27 June 1998 Released
Producted By: HBO
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In WWII Western Germany, Private David Manning reluctantly leaves behind a mortally wounded fellow soldier and searches for survivors from his platoon, only to learn from commanding officer Captain Pritchett that they have all been killed in action. Despite requesting a discharge on the grounds of mental disability, Manning is promoted to sergeant and assigned to lead a new platoon of young inductees.

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Drama, War, TV Movie

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Director

John Irvin

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HBO

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Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever
Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.
Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
stecrowd-64865 This is not a great movie. To me, a great movie is one that has an emotional catch of some sort. This one is lacking.
sonofhades by a firing squad. Very seldom have I started to laugh in middle of a movie because the music playing on the background did not suit the action presented on the screen. This was probable the single most reason I could not rate this movie any higher. On the other hand, my son who watched the movie with me did not feel the music to be as painful as I did, so perhaps some people enjoy a drum beat and a jazz trumpet playing on the background of an intense action sequence...Apart from that, this movie was perfectly average as a war movie. It had very few characters one could identify with. The main character seemed fine to begin with and there were moments where I thought the other characters could develop during the film.Some of the explosions resembled fireworks a bit too much for my taste, but the vast majority of the special effects was what you could expect from a decent war movie. However, make no mistake: This is not of Band of Brothers - quality. Perhaps the closest resemblance would be with the Dirty Dozen or some other war movie from 70s/80s than any modern war movie.
galen-robinson This was more of a drama/entertainment film than a credible account of anything that did or could have happened. The acting was nothing special, and in fact a little disappointing, and definitely detracted from the story. It also focuses mostly on two characters throughout, which, even in other movies is generally avoided, as more characters are at least more developed even in supporting roles where they are not in this movie. However, it was well filmed with decent picture and sound editing. The sets were also fairly well designed and the costumes and props were good too. The end was also disappointing and somewhat abrupt. The original footage was a nice touch, though. There were some inconsistencies but nothing major. Hurtgen forest campaign was no picnic. I was there. Saw my buddies all torn up. Darn them krauts.
parker-mabey in the movie when trumpets fade it talks about one mans story and how fears coming over him trying to get his new unit to come with to the Germany lines and how he gos up the ranks but starts to fall apart near the end because he knowing that doing this pushes would cause a kill for the us troops mannings know what he has to do but cant not do it because deads is coming for the us troops but after going though so many different battles he figures that he will do this job and at least try to live and get though what he has to do order to live from the Germany forces i think it was a great movies because it show all different thins about how to try to live thoughts very bad times and how a Lt. can fell like he is going to break but get ups the cougar and dos keeps his mission and dos what he has to do for the man that he is protesting