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The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American epic war film written and directed by Terrence Malick. It is the second film adaptation of the 1962 novel by James Jones, following the 1964 film. Telling a fictionalized version of the Battle of Mount Austen, which was part of the Guadalcanal campaign in the Pacific Theater of the Second World War, it portrays U.S. 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 novel's title alludes to a line from Rudyard Kipling's poem "Tommy", from Barrack-Room Ballads, in which he says British foot soldiers are called a "thin red line of [h]eroes", referring to the stand of the 93rd Regiment in the Battle of Balaclava of the Crimean War.
- Director
- Terrence Malick
- Writer
- Terrence Malick
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- Release date
- 1998 · Released
- Runtime
- 166 min
- Country of origin
- United States
- Languages
- English, Japanese
- Genres
- Drama · War
- Also known as
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- Deutsch
- Der schmale Grat
- Español
- La delgada línea roja
- Français
- La Ligne rouge
- Italiano
- La sottile linea rossa
- 日本語
- シン・レッド・ライン
- 한국어
- 씬 레드 라인
- Polski
- Cienka czerwona linia
- Themes
- Guadalcanal campaign ↗ Pacific War ↗ World War II ↗
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