Battle Circus

Long before M*A*S*H there was Battle Circus. Made during the Korean War this tribute to the indomitable human spirit takes an authentic almost documentary-like look at the nurses and doctors who operated in the battlefront Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals. Major Jed Webbe (Humphrey Bogart) is a brilliant hard-bitten Army surgeon with a weakness for women and strong liquor. Fresh from the states arrives Lt. Ruth McCara (June Allyson) a naive young nurse ready to save the world. The story of their love and heroism told against the grimly realistic background of pounding artillery and deadly ambushes forms the core of the film. The title Battle Circus comes from the way the mobile field units can strike their tents move to a new battle area then set them up again like circus roustabouts in nothing flat. And like circus daredevils these heroes risk life and death on a daily basis.

Director: Richard Brooks
Producer: Pandro S. Berman
Actor: Humphrey Bogart
Actor: June Allyson
Actor: Keenan Wynn
Actor: Robert Keith
Actor: William Campbell
Actor: Patricia Tiernan
Actor: Helen Winston
Actor: Sarah Selby
Actor: Danny Chang
Actor: Philip Ahn
Actor: Steve Forrest
Actor: Perry Sheehan
Actor: Adele Longmire
Actor: Jonathan Cott
Actor: Ann Morrison
Actor: Jeff Richards
Actor: Dick Simmons
Actor: Sam McKim
Actor: Joe Keane
Actor: John Tuggle
Actor: Richard [Dickie] Tyler
Actor: Robert Beard
Actor: Roger McGee
Actor: Rolland Morris
Actor: Robert Carson
Actor: Arthur Space
Actor: Wen Ti Chang
Actor: Ted Jordan
Actor: Robert Van Orden
Actor: Howard Negley
Actor: Richard D. Zelechower M.D.
Actor: Alex Milstein M.D.
Actor: Josh Fields M.D.
Actor: Dick Landry
Actor: William Self
Actor: Alvy Moore
Actor: Ralph Ahn
Actor: Michael Galloway
Actor: Jim Cronan
Actor: Leo Needham
Actor: Bob Nichols
Actor: Patrick Allen
Actor: John Sheffield
Actor: Tom Walker
Actor: Mickey McCardle
Actor: Patrick Lee Holmes
Actor: Victor Desny
Actor: Roger Etienne Everaert
Actor: Tony Layng
Actor: Elsie Chew
Actor: Jamshid Sheibani
Actor: Steve Mitchell
Actor: William Yip