| Battle Circus | |
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| Directed by | Richard Brooks |
| Written by | Richard Brooks Allen Rivkin Laura Kerr |
| Produced by | Pandro S. Berman |
| Starring | Humphrey Bogart June Allyson Keenan Wynn Robert Keith |
| Cinematography | John Alton |
| Edited by | George Boemler |
| Music by | Lennie Hayton |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1,201,000[1] |
| Box office | $2,362,000[1][2] |
Battle Circus is a 1953 American war film directed by Richard Brooks, who also co-wrote the screenplay with married writing duo Laura Kerr and Allen Rivkin. The movie stars Humphrey Bogart and June Allyson, and costars Keenan Wynn and Robert Keith.
The film is set in Korea during the Korean War. Bogart (in his only film for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer[3]) plays a surgeon and commander of Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) 8666 (shortened to "66" in the dialogue),[4] with Allyson playing a newly arrived nurse. Despite initial obstacles, their love flourishes against a background of war, enemy attacks, death and injury.
- ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study
- ^ "The Top Box Office Hits of 1953." Variety, January 13, 1954.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "Battle Circus (1953)." Allmovie. Retrieved: October 20, 2012.
- ^ "From The Warner Archive: Battle Circus, 1953 (dir. Richard Brooks); the diary of a film history fanatic". Cinema-fanatic.com. 2012-09-15. Retrieved 2014-04-23.