| The Story of G.I. Joe | |
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| Directed by | William A. Wellman |
| Screenplay by | Leopold Atlas Guy Endore Philip Stevenson |
| Based on | Here Is Your War 1943 book Brave Men 1944 book by Ernie Pyle |
| Produced by | Lester Cowan David Hall |
| Starring | Burgess Meredith Robert Mitchum |
| Cinematography | Russell Metty |
| Edited by | Albrecht Joseph |
| Music by | Louis Applebaum Ann Ronell |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 108 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | English Italian |
| Budget | $1.2 million[1][2] |
| Box office | $2.5 million (US)[2] |
The Story of G.I. Joe, also credited in prints as Ernie Pyle's Story of G.I. Joe, is a 1945 American war film directed by William A. Wellman and starring Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Mitchum's only career Oscar nomination.
The story is a tribute to the American infantryman (G.I. Joe) during World War II, told through the eyes of Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle, with dialogue and narration lifted from Pyle's columns. The film concentrates on one company (C Company, 18th Infantry) that Pyle accompanies into combat in Tunisia and Italy.
In 2009, the film was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant.[3][4][5]
- ^ "Indies $70,000,000 Pix Output". Variety: 18. 3 November 1944. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
- ^ a b "British Exhibition Chill Continues Against 'GI Joe' and 'Objective Burma'". Variety. 4 September 1946. pp. 3, 27.
- ^ "25 new titles added to National Film Registry". Yahoo News. Yahoo. 2009-12-30. Archived from the original on January 6, 2010. Retrieved 2009-12-30.
- ^ "Complete National Film Registry Listing". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-12.
- ^ "Michael Jackson, the Muppets and Early Cinema Tapped for Preservation in 2009 Library of Congress National Film Registry". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2020-05-12.