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• AUDIE LEON MURPHY (1924-1971).
• MURPHY, AUDIE L.
• Murphy commanded Company B, which was attacked by 6 tanks and waves of infantry. ... Murphy ordered his men to withdraw to prepared positions in a woods, while he remained forward at his command post and continued to give fire directions to the artillery by telephone. ... Murphy continued to direct artillery fire which killed large numbers of the advancing enemy infantry. ... Murphy climbed on the burning tank destroyer, which was in danger of blowing up at any moment, and employed its. ... Murphy, but he continued to hold his position and wiped out a squad which was trying to creep up unnoticed on his right flank. ... Murphy's indomitable courage and his refusal to give an inch of ground saved his company from possible encirclement and destruction, and enabled it to hold the woods which had been the enemy's objective.
• By the end of the war, Murphy had more combat decorations than any other soldier in the US Army, and was considered the World War II equivalent of Alvin C. ...
• To Hell and Back follows Murphy's life from late childhood where, a member of a poor Texas farm family, he dropped out of high school to enlist at the start of the war and then had to overcome several obstacles, particularly his diminutive stature, to get assigned to the infantry. ... One might assume that in portraying himself on film, Murphy went on the ultimate ego trip with what today would be described as Rambo-like heroics, but in comparing the film with the official combat reports, it is clear that Murphy was actually being extremely modest and self-deprecating.
• Another technical inaccuracy, although quite minor by Hollywood standards, is that Murphy did his onscreen standoff on top of a burning M-4 Sherman medium tank, whereas in real life it was an M-18 Hellcat tank destroyer; the two vehicles are similar enough, with the same chassis, the tank destroyer having lighter armor but a larger more powerful gun, that the average untrained civilian would be unable to tell the difference.
• Murphy died in a plane crash in 1971 on a business venture. ...

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• And one of them, Audie L. Murphy, remains to this day the most decorated soldier in United States military history. ...
• According to The Handbook of Texas Online, Audie Murphy, one of twelve children, was born on June 20, 1924, near Kingston, Texas. ...
• Murphy would go on to see action with the 3rd Infantry Division in North Africa. ...
• Audie Murphy was awarded the Medal of Honor for exceptional valor on January 26, 1945, at Holtzwhir, France. ...
• Murphy was wounded three times. ...
• Audie Murphy went on to become a movie star and a songwriter; with several of his songs being on the Hit Parade's top ten list. ...
• Audie Murphy was killed in a plane crash on May 28, 1971, near Christiansburg, Virginia, and is buried near the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery. ...
• Murphy has been described as a somewhat bashful young man who really didn't think he had done that much in the war. ...

• Audie Murphy: Great American Hero .
• But when Audie Murphy single-handedly fought off 250 German soldiers, he became a legend. Audie Murphy: Great American Hero tells the story of the most decorated soldier of WWII. After earning 33 medals in combat, Murphy headed west for Hollywood stardom and appeared in over 40 pictures. But like many heroes, Murphy was also flawed. ... Audie Murphy: Great American Hero would be useful for classes on American History, WWII, American Culture and Military History. ...
• Audie Murphy's family were sharecroppers. ...
• Audie Murphy was a child during the Great Depression. How did the Great Depression affect Murphy and shape his childhood? How did it influence his later life? .
• How did Lattie Tipton's death affect Audie Murphy? Discuss why the bonds between buddies are so important and essential to soldiers? .
• Audie Murphy performed some of the most celebrated acts of heroism in WWII. What drove Murphy to such heroic feats? .
• Why did Murphy receive the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation's highest honor? .
• Murphy became a successful actor after the war. How did Murphy get into the motion picture industry? .
• Design a poster or some other souvenir that commemorates the awarding of the Congressional Medal of Honor to Audie Murphy. ...

• Sergeant Audie Murphy Club.
•     For the first time in the history of the medical force, the Europe Regional Medical Command inducted three Audie Murphy Club members on April 15, 2000, at the Second Annual Spring Ball at the Village Pavilion in Heidelberg. ...
•    The Europe Regional Medical Command conducted another Sergeant Audie Murphy Club Board on August 16 in Heidelberg, Germany. ...

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•     Starring: Audie Murphy, Michael Burns .
• Murphy's mission is to get a shipment of rifles, but it's stolen by greedy white traders with the help of mutinous soldiers. ...
•     Starring: Audie Murphy, Michael Dante, Linda Lawson .
•     Starring: Audie Murphy, Michael Dante & Buster Crabbe.
• Murphy plays ex-Quantrill's Raider who's let out of jail with buddy Cooper to be deputized as Arizona Rangers to hunt down the remnant of the gang, rumored to he hiding out in a town "neer dee border" in the words of the loose-lipped saloon dancer. ... Murphy and Cooper pretend to want to rejoin the gange, but the bad guys catch on and brutally eat Cooper, who protects Murphy's true sentiments to the death.
•     Starring: Audie Murphy, Gary Crosby .
• This is only the second Audie Murphy movie set in WWII after his autobiographical "To Hell and Back. " Here Murphy steps out of his usual kid-Western role to play a civilian working for the Navy helping supply guerilla insurgents in the Philippines. ...
•     Starring: Audie Murphy, Joan Evans, Dennis Weaver .
•     Starring: Audie Murphy, Jack Warden & Susan Kohner .
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•     Starring: Audie Murphy & Kathryn Grant .
• Murphy deserts the Union Army to warn former Texas neighbors of impending Indian attacks triggered by Army massacre. ...

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• Audie L. Murphy .
• The Audie L. Murphy Memorial Hunt County Veterans Exhibit was dedicated on May 23, 1998, during Greenville's annual Audie Murphy Day. The exhibit presently includes memorabilia from Audie L. Murphy's military service and movie career, as well as memorabilia from other Hunt County veterans. ...
• Audie Murphy Days- June 20 and 21, 2003 .
• This annual two-day celebration honors WWII's most decorated soldier, Audie L. Murphy, who was born and raised in Hunt County. All events are planned and hosted by the Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum and Hunt County veterans organizations. ...
• Audie Murphy Days begins at 8:00 a. ... on Friday, June 20 (Audie Murphy's birthday) with Coffee Time at the Fletcher Warren Civic Center. ... Hwy 69) Other activities include memorabilia displays at the musuem and a tour of sites important in Murphy's life at 1 p. ...
• at the Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum, followed by opening ceremonies at 9:00 a. ... Guest speakers for the ceremonies are actor Ben Cooper, who starred with Murphy in Gunfight at Comanche Creek and Arizona Raiders and actor Paul Picerni, who starred in Murphy's autobiographical debut film To Hell and Back. ...

• Audie Murphy Day.
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•   Make plans now to attend the 4th Annual Audie Murphy Day, June 20, 2003.   Audie Murphy Day is a community-wide celebration of our hometown hero, the most decorated soldier of World War II, and all of the Farmersville veterans of all branches of service. ...

• Audie Murphy Medal of Honor G. ...
• In this case, it is a painting of Audie Murphy on the tank destroyer manning the machine gun in order to keep the Germans from taking a bridge in Italy. Murphy ordered the rest of his troops into the woods so they could attack the Germans if Murphy got killed. The story seemed to be similar to the ending of Saving Private Ryan, except that in this case, Murphy was by himself while his troops perhaps provided some additional rifle fire from behind him. In any event, the cover is what you would expect from a collectible, and the inner flap provides some Audie Murphy biographical information. ...
• The Audie Murphy headsculpt is probably one of the best Hasbro has ever done. ...
• Murphy is wearing a shirt, scarf, and a jacket, along with pants and a nice pair of boots. ...
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• Audie Leon Murphy, son of poor Texas sharecroppers, rose to national fame as the most decorated U. ... On 21 September, 1945, Audie was released from the Army as an active member and reassigned to inactive status. During this same time, actor James Cagney invited Murphy to Hollywood in September 1945, when he saw Murphy's photo on the cover of Life Magazine. ... In the 25 years that Audie spent in Hollywood, he made a total of 44 feature films. ... Audie loved to gamble, and he won and lost fortunes. Dozens of Audie Murphy's songs were recorded and released by such great performers as Dean Martin, Eddy Arnold, Charley Pride, Jimmy Bryant, Porter Waggoner, Jerry Wallace, Roy Clark, Harry Nilsson and many others. ... In a effort to draw attention to the problems of returning Korean and Vietnam War veterans, Audie Murphy spoke-out candidly about his personal problems with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, then known as "Battle Fatigue". ... In 1996 the Texas Legislature officially designated his birthday, June 20th, as Audie Murphy Day. ... Bush, Texas made a similar proclation declaring June 20th to officially be Audie Murphy Day in the state of Texas. ...
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•   TO HELL AND BACK  (director: Jesse Hibbs; screenwriters: Gil Doud/based on the autobography by Audie Murphy; cinematographer: Maury Gertsman; editor: Edward Curtiss; music: Joseph Gershenson; cast: Audie Murphy (Himself), Marshall Thompson (Johnson), Charles Drake (Brandon), Gregg Palmer (Lieutenant Manning), Jack Kelly (Kerrigan), Paul Picerni (Valentino), Susan Kohner (Maria), Denver Pyle (Thompson), Richard Castle (Kovak), Bruce Cowling (Captain Marks), Harold Hart (Sgt. ... Murphy); Runtime: 106; Universal-International; 1955).
• The film accurately reflects the WW11 patriotic fervor of Audie Murphy. ... " Its clichés are overcome by Audie's breathtaking heroics, the authentic battle scenes, and the likability of the hero. Audie was not only the most decorated soldier of WW11, but of all time. James Cagney recommended his fellow Irishman, Audie, to Hollywood after seeing the hero on the cover of Life. Unfortunately, after a brilliant three years in the service and fighting in seven major campaigns, Audie's dream of a military career and of attending West Point came to an end with a hip injury in a major battle towards the close of the war. ...
• Audie's dad abandoned his struggling North Texas family, and Audie decided to quit school at 12 and work at a local farm to support his beloved mom (Mary Field) and his five younger siblings. ...
• Murphy has a very pleasant demeanor and even though he lacked the education skills and was short of physical stature, he made up for it with spunk, courage, and the ability to make the right decisions in the heat of battle. ...
• Audie is first stationed in North Africa but General Patton has made short work of the Germans, so he sees no combat. ... Audie is flat as a romantic lead, but the scenes of them together was sweetly done and not embarrassing. ...
• Audie is much better looking on the battlefield than when forced to act or show his emotions. When his division lands in Anzio they meet up with five crack German divisions, and Audie puts his ass on the line and does his usual hero thing by leading a squad to take out a farmhouse of Germans firing down on the advancing troops. ...
• Audie's last act of heroics gives him the wound that ended his army career, as he takes charge against an assault of German Panzer tanks by standing atop of a disabled Sherman tank dangerously leaking gas and using his machine gun to knock off all the Germans within his range. ...
• Audie's the real deal. Though the film might lack an emotional spark to connect with all the soldiers, nevertheless it connects with Audie--a real hero and not John Wayne acting like one. ...

• Audie Murphy Days this week.
• The annual Audie Murphy Days celebration scheduled Friday and Saturday will feature as keynote speaker Paul Picerni, a Hollywood actor who appeared with Murphy in the movie "To Hell and Back. ...
• In addition, seven original paintings of Murphy by renowned American artist Richard Krause will be on display.
• Audie Murphy Days pay tribute to Murphy, a Hunt County native who was the most decorated World War II soldier and who then went on to a distinguished career in Hollywood films. The event is co-sponsored by the American Cotton Museum and the Audie Murphy Days Committee which includes representatives from the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars and their Ladies Auxiliaries.
• " Audie Murphy statue update, Jack Finney of the statue committee.
• George Keck of the Audie Murphy Platoon in Fort Sill, Okla. ...
• " Retiring of the colors by the Audie Murphy Platoon.
• , unveiling of new exhibit, "Murphy Seven," seven original oil paintings of Audie Murphy by artist Richard Krause.
• Memorial Service in Audie Murphy Memorial Park in Celeste, featuring retiring of the colors, 21-gun salute by the American Legion Department of Texas Color Guard, and Taps by the American Legion. ...
• Friday's keynote speaker, Paul Picerni, who will fly here from his home in California, worked alongside Murphy as a member of the cast of "To Hell and Back" which premiered in the fall of 1955. ...
• Louis recently created the series of paintings of Audie Murphy on display at the American Cotton Museum Saturday. They depict Murphy in both his military uniform and in costumes worn in his films. The original artwork was donated to the Audie Murphy Research Foundation. ...
• Audie Murphy was born in Kingston and enlisted in the U. ... The citation credits Murphy with holding off two enemy rifle companies single-handedly for several hours near a village in eastern France.

•  AUDIE MURPHY  •  Soldier / Actor.
• Audie Murphy was the most decorated American Army soldier of World War II. ... After the war Murphy parlayed his wartime fame into an up-and-down career as a movie actor, songwriter, and businessman. ...
• Extra credit: June 20th is officially Audie Murphy Day in Texas. ... Murphy originally tried to join the Marines but was turned down for being too short. ...
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• A history of the medal; see the "Recipients" link for Murphy and others.

• Audie Murphy Tribute Rifle .
• War Hero, Western Star, Great American -- Audie Murphy personified the moral values and selfless valor that Americans admired. ...
• Right side features a magnificent close-up portrait of Audie, capturing his boyish good looks and sensual smile, which made him a Hollywood star and a favorite of the fans.   Also featured is a scene with him crouching behind a boulder, sixgun at the ready, and the inscribed legend, "Audie Murphy-June 20,1924-May 28, 1971. ...
• Left side features Audie Murphy astride his horse, slowly moving through a typical western town. ...
•   A striking portrait of Audie Murphy is featured on the shoulder stock, while the forearm features Audie Murphy's name in old western typeface. ...   From the gold embellished receiver to the handsome laser-carved walnut stocks, the Tribute captures Audie Murphy's career as a western film star in magnificent detail. ...
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• Audie on the cover of the July 16, 1945 issue of Life Magazine.
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• Audie Murphy.
• Much of Murphy's characterization was edited out. ... I don't recall what Mankiewicz says about the movie in Geist's book, but Clift hardly represented the same values as Audie Murphy, which suggests that Mankiewicz originally had a much more complex character in mind, a man bruised by life, not Murphy's relatively innocent idealist. ... Though it's hard to imagine today, Audie Murphy was then one of the world's top movie stars, based on his best-selling autobiography and the huge success of the movie version, TO HELL AND BACK. ... It ran about three hours plus in its rough cut, and included several love scenes between Murphy and Georgia Moll. ... In addition, several of Murphy's other scenes were cut from the script when he fell ill from a ruptured appendix and shooting had to go on around him. ... Part of the problem, one reason Murphy's role (and Moll's and Bruce Cabot's) was heavily edited, was that Mankiewicz (perhaps inevitably, given his "prestige" view of himself as a writer-director) inclined the final cut towards the "serious" actors, Redgrave and Claude Dauphin. ... Murphy wasn't the best casting (nor Moll), but he could certainly have handled the role if script and direction had been better. ... Redgrave is a great actor, and he pulls much of the movie together, and the loathing he and Murphy had for each other plays nicely. (Ironically, according to Corin Redgrave, his father's great love had been an American soldier, a hero in WWII who resembled Murphy; they broke up just before THE QUIET AMERICAN started shooting. ...

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• Audie Leon Murphy, nació el 20 de Junio de 1924, hijo de un aparcero pobre del norte de Texas. ...
• Luego de su baja el 21 de setiembre de 1945, Audie fue a Hollywood como invitado del actor James Cagney. ...
•   En 1955 Audie Murphy fue nombrado el Más popular actor de Westerns en EEUU, por la Motion Pictures Exhibitors.
• Audie escribió las letras de 16 ó 17 canciones country (hay una controversia, al respecto), siendo la más popular "Shutters and Boards" con música de Scott Turner (1962) e interpretada por más de 30 cantantes, incluyendo Jerry Wallace, Dean Martin y Porter Waggoner.
• Audie Murphy sufrió la enfermedad conocida como desorden postraumático del stress, que le causaba insomnio y depresión. ...
•    El día de su cumpleaños fue declarado el Día de Audie Murphy en el estado de Texas, día que fue ratificado oficialmente por el Presidente Bush el 9 de junio de 1999.

• Audie Murphy.
• He was Audie Murphy, the baby-faced Texas farmboy who became an American Legend. Murphy grew up on a sharecropper's farm in Hunt County, Texas. Left at a very young age to help raise 10 brothers and sisters when his father deserted their mother, Audie was only 16 when his mother died. ...
• War had just been declared and, like so many other young men, Murphy lied about his age in his attempt to enlist. ...
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• Following basic training Murphy was assigned to the 15th Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division in North Africa preparing to invade Sicily. ... Throughout these campaigns, Murphy's skills earned him advancements in rank, because many of his superior officers were being transferred, wounded or killed. After the capture of Rome, Murphy earned his first decoration for gallantry. ...
• During seven weeks of fighting in that successful campaign, Murphy's division suffered 4,500 casualties, and he became one of the most decorated men in his company. ...
• Murphy's forward positions came under fierce attack by the Germans. Against the onslaught of six Panzer tanks and 250 infantrymen, Murphy ordered his men to fall back to better their defenses. ... Wounded in the leg during the heavy fire, Murphy remained there for nearly an hour, repelling the attack of German soldiers on three side and single-handedly killing 50 of them. ... For this Murphy was awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest award for gallantry in action. ...
• By the war's end, Murphy had become the nation's most-decorated soldier, earning an unparalleled 28 medals, including three from France and one from Belgium. Murphy had been wounded three times during the war, yet, in May 1945, when victory was declared in Europe, he had still not reached his 21st birthday. ...

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• Audie Murphy began life the ordinary way. ... His father, Emmett (Pat), was a sharecropper, and the Murphy family was dirt poor, even before Pat abandoned his family. Audie had very little schooling; poverty saw to that. ... He also learned to use a rifle at a young age, shooting small game to put food on the Murphy's supper table. ...
• * According to Stan Smith, president of the Audie Murphy Fan Club, Audie was born in 1925, not 1924 as stated on his birth certificate. This would mean that Audie was younger than previously believed when he fulfilled his destiny. ...
• When World War II came, Audie found a way out, a chance to make something of himself. ...
• This picture of Audie was provided by the Audie Murphy Research Foundation. ...
• The following pages contain pictures taken from the film "To Hell and Back", based on Audie's autobiography. They represent actual events in Audie's life. ...
• "The Audie L. Murphy Memorial Web Site" .
• Audie's cowboy persona .
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• Born in Kingston, Texas, to cotton sharecroppers in June 1924, Audie Murphy was devastated when his father abandoned the large family in the late 1930s. ... After the death of his mother, Murphy enlisted in the Army in 1942 and emerged from World War II as the nation's most decorated soldier and appeared on the cover of several magazines. ... Not long after his release from the service, Murphy made his way to Hollywood at the invitation of actor James Cagney. His first screen appearance came in the 1948 Alan Ladd vehicle Beyond Glory, in which Murphy portrayed a soldier. ... In 1949, while acting in a remake of Forbidden Valley titled Sierra, Murphy met and married starlet Wanda Hendrix. ... Murphy's marriage to Wanda Hendrix suffered under the strain of their careers and ended in 1950. The following year, Murphy married his second wife, Pamela Archer, a flight attendant. the films of audie murphy.
• From Murphy's penultimate film, 40 Guns to Apache Pass.
• Audie Murphy's film career had been a successful one, but in the 1960s he put Hollywood on the back burner, focusing instead on his business interests. ... Tragically, Murphy died before the film's release in a plane crash near Roanoke, Virginia, in May 1971 at age 46. audie murphy films available from movies unlimited.
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• Audie Murphy is excellent as Henry Fleming, who matures from a timid youth into a self-assured man and, finally, a hero. ...

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• Murphy commanded Company B, which was attacked by six tanks and waves of infantry. ... Murphy ordered his men to withdraw to prepared positions in the woods, while he remained forward at his command post and continued to give fire directions to the artillery by telephone. ... Murphy continued to direct artillery fire, which killed large numbers of the advancing enemy infantry. ... Murphy climbed on the burning tank destroyer, which was in danger of blowing up at any moment, and employed its. ... Murphy, but he continued to hold his position and wiped out a squad which was trying to creep up unnoticed on his right flank. ... Murphy's indomitable courage and his refusal to give an inch of ground saved his company from possible encirclement and destruction, and enabled it to hold the woods which had been the enemy's objective.

• Audie Murphy.
• Audie Leon Murphy quit school to work and support his poor family. While out working word came that his mother has passed away and at age 12, Audie was an orphan. Audie joined the military, with hardship, considering he joined by his own volition under age.
• Audie enlisted at age 18. ...
• Beginning his service as an Army Private, Audie quickly rose to the enlisted and of Staff Sergeant, was given a "battle field" commission as 2nd Lieutenant, was wounded three times, fought in 9 major campaigns across the European Theater, and survived the war.
• During Murphy's 3 years active service as a combat soldier in W. ... II, Audie became one of the best fighting combat soldiers of this or any other century. ...
• On September 21, 1945, Audie was released from the Army as an active member and reassigned to inactive status. During this same time, actor James Cagney invited Murphy to Hollywood in September 1945, when he saw Murphy's photo on the cover of Life Magazine. The next couple of years in California were hard times for Audie Murphy. ...
• Murphy starred as himself in a film biography. ... In the 25 years that Audie spent in Hollywood, he made a total of 44 feature films.
• Audie also wrote some poetry and was quite a successful song writer. ...
• Audie suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and was plagued by insomnia and depression. ... Murphy spoke out candidly about his personal problems with PTS, then known as Battle Fatigue, in an effort to help VETERANS from the Viet Nam and Korean war.

• FESTIVAL HONORS WAR HERO & FILM STAR AUDIE MURPHY THIS YEAR .
• The Lone Pine Film Festival is honoring the most decorated hero of World War II, Audie Murphy, on October 11, 12, and 13th. Audie Murphy made three of his best movies in Lone Pine after his military service was done. ...
•  Part of being a hero is self-sacrifice and Audie Murphy's personal story was one of success and sacrifice that still inspires people today. Audie was born on June 20, 1924 near the little town of Kingston, Texas on a sharecropper's farm. When Audie was 12, his father deserted the family and when he was 16, his mother died and he went to work as a farm hand, forcing him to place his three younger siblings in an orphanage. Sue Gossett, author of The Films and Career of Audie Murphy, and a Festival panel guest this year, reports, "Audie mourned his mother's passing the rest of his life. ...
• Audie in "Posse from Hell".
• When his platoon leader asked why he did it, Audie replied, "It was my job. ...
• His hard life and the violence he had seen so young had taken a personal toll of Audie, but his film career accelerated, as he worked hard on his skills as an actor.
•  In Posse From Hell, Audie stars as a gunfighter who hunts down four escaped desperadoes who killed his friend and wreaked havoc on a small town. Robert Nott notes that Posse signaled the slow evolution of Murphy's on -screen persona from a naïve cowpoke forced to act because of circumstance to a tightlipped veteran. Nott writes, "The Murphy character would change, through the 1960's into a hardened, humorless leader with little use for other men. ...
•  One critic wrote of Murphy's performance, "Audie Murphy, whose heroic exploits in real life make him ideally suited for and extra believable, does his usual commendable restrained job in super heroic roles. " Audie Murphy was a believable killer on the screen because of his experiences as a killer during the war. ...
• who worked with Audie. ... Earl Bellamy directed Audie in one of his later films Gunpoint. ...

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