A Walk in the Sun (Lewis Milestone-20th Century-Fox) is an accurate transposition to the screen of Harry Brown's slight, highly polished war novel. The story of an all but leaderless platoon of U.S. infantrymen, marching the few miles from an Italian beachhead to their objective, a Nazi-infested farmhouse, has fine dramatic unity and enough signs of life to hold the eye. The dialogue is 200-proof literary corn; the background music, a synthetic folk-song sung like a lullaby, is deplorable. But the story's lack of pretension and a number of good unactorish performances make...
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