The Thin Red Line (1998)
The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American war film written and directed by Terrence Malick. Based on the novel by James Jones, it tells a fictionalized version of the Battle of Mount Austen, which was part of the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II. It portrays soldiers of C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, played by Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas and Ben Chaplin. The title echoes a line from Rudyard Kipling's poem "Tommy", from Barrack-Room Ballads, in which he calls foot soldiers "the thin red line of heroes", referring to the stand of the 93rd Regiment in the Battle of Balaclava of the Crimean War.
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Cast:
- Kirk Acevedo
- Penny Allen
- Adrien Brody
- Jim Caviezel
- Ben Chaplin
- George Clooney
- John Cusack
- Matt Doran
- Paul Gleeson
- Woody Harrelson
- Don Harvey
- Danny Hoch
- Thomas Jane
- Mark Boone Junior
- Elias Koteas
- Jared Leto
- Dash Mihok
- Tim Blake Nelson
- Nick Nolte
- Miranda Otto
- Sean Penn
- John C. Reilly
- Larry Romano
- John Savage
- John Dee Smith
- Nick Stahl
- John Travolta
- Arie Verveen