Top cast:Mary Fuller,J. Barney Sherry
Director:Tony Goldwyn
Genre:History
Region:Syria
Year:2008
Storyline:Soldier: (shocked) Dead.He""s dead.Katczinsky: Why did you risk your life bringing him in?Soldier: But it""s Behm, my friend.Katczinsky: (admonishing) It""s a corpse, no matter whose it is.Now, don""t any of ya ever do that again.The next day, Katczinsky tells the exhausted Paul about the war and the interminable march they are about to take to another "party": "And this one is gonna last a long ime.Plot SynopsisThe film""s prologue is taken from an opening page of he Norris book:I never truckled; I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies.He held up one of the valuable relics that he had discovered - an old Indian funerary urn - before the cave-in occurred.The sharp-edged, stylized screenplay, by Ernest Lehman (known forSabrina (1954),The King and I (1956), and later forNorth by Northwest (1959),West Side Story (1961),The Sound of Music (1965), andWho""s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)) and the acclaimed left-wing American playwright Clifford Odets (known forGolden Boy (1939), Humoresque (1946)andThe Big Knife (1955)), was based on Lehman""s own original novelette (retitled asTell Me About It Tomorrowwhen published inCosmopolitanin 1950).Fireworks ("sky flowers") were exploded to keep the zombies looking up and staring at them ("Stenches can""t keep their eyes off them"), while the humans patroled through their streets.