David Brian, John Agar, and Frank Lovejoy head a solid cast in Breakthrough a
product of Warner Brothers B picture unit that skilfully employs real combat
footage nicely integrated into the film
It's a simple plot as the film opens in Great Britain where the troops are gathering for the upcoming D-Day invasion. David Brian is a company commander and John Agar is new 2nd Lieutenant from Fort Benning who has in fact taken over the platoon Brian was formerly in charge of. A training foul up that could have been fatal gets Agar good and chewed out. However Sergeant Frank Lovejoy thinks Agar has the right stuff.
A bit of the plot from Twelve O'Clock High is also used in this film as well in regard to the conclusion.
A lot of familiar names and a lot of WW2 stock characters are used for the members of Agar's platoon.
The three leads are cast well and World War 2 film fans should be pleased.
It's a simple plot as the film opens in Great Britain where the troops are gathering for the upcoming D-Day invasion. David Brian is a company commander and John Agar is new 2nd Lieutenant from Fort Benning who has in fact taken over the platoon Brian was formerly in charge of. A training foul up that could have been fatal gets Agar good and chewed out. However Sergeant Frank Lovejoy thinks Agar has the right stuff.
A bit of the plot from Twelve O'Clock High is also used in this film as well in regard to the conclusion.
A lot of familiar names and a lot of WW2 stock characters are used for the members of Agar's platoon.
The three leads are cast well and World War 2 film fans should be pleased.