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Ritchie Boys, The

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Based on 8 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary | War
Written by: Christian Bauer
Directed by: Christian Bauer
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 13, 2006
Running Time: 90 minutes, B/W / Color
Origin: Canada / Germany
Language(s): German / English
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Hans Peter Hallwachs (narrator), Werner Angress, Victor Brombert, Philip Glaessner, Fred Howard, Si Lewen, Rudy Michaels, Morris Parloff, Richard Schifter, Hans Spear, and Guy Stern
Christian Bauer's film "The Ritchie Boys" tells a story that's never been told before. It begins in Camp Ritchie, Maryland, the birthplace of modern psychological warfare, and it ends with the defeat of Germany in May of 1945. After D-Day the Ritchie Boys became a decisive force in the war. Nobody knew the enemy, his culture and his language better than they. Their mission: ascertain and break the enemy's morale. (Tangram)
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What The Critics Said
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The Hollywood Reporter Michael Rechtshaffen
A fascinating documentary with a high entertainment quotient thanks to the fact that the film's surviving subjects prove to be some of the most articulate, not to mention wittiest, octogenarians around.
Read Full Review >Variety Robert Koehler
Christian Bauer's engaging The Ritchie Boys captures the excitement, ironies and "good war" feel of World War II.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Drew Tillman
These are men who know of what they speak; they're also eloquent, erudite, and funny as hell.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Neil Genzlinger
Those whose tolerance of Greatest Generation war stories isn't exhausted, not to mention those who still thrive on them, will find the group of men who called themselves the Ritchie Boys good company.
Read Full Review >Film Threat James Wegg
Any thinking person – no matter what political stripe or moral belief – needs to see this important film then try to apply its valuable lessons to today's, still, unstable planet.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
Still witty and eloquent, these cerebral boys became the haunted men who do their best to share their experiences with us, even as they know we'll never truly understand.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
This is a film with a story we have not seen before, a story about American troops so unusual it needed a German director to ferret it out.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
The visual monotony of talking heads and stock footage is interrupted occasionally by the spectral charcoal drawings of veteran Si Lewen, though his art is used to full advantage only when he describes the liberation of Buchenwald.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
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