War Hunt

May 1, 1962

1h 23m

★ 6.5

It happened on a raging battlefield, but he could have been a murderer stalking a city's streets!

Overview

Dispatched to the front lines during the Korean War, an idealistic American soldier discovers the horrors of combat and comes at odds with a psychopathic member of his platoon.

Genres

Drama

War

Production Companies

T-D Enterprises

War Hunt Trailers

Cast

Pvt. Raymond Endore

John Saxon

Capt. Wallace Pratt

Charles Aidman

Sgt. Owen Van Horn

Sydney Pollack

Charlie

Tommy Matsuda

Pvt. Crotty

Gavin MacLeod

Pvt. Roy Loomis

Robert Redford

Pvt. Joshua Fresno

Anthony Ray

Sgt. Stan Showalter

Tom Skerritt

Lt. Colonel

William Challee

Mama San

Nancy Hsueh

Army Truck Driver (uncredited)

Francis Ford Coppola

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