Epinions Recent Reviews for When Trumpets Fade

When Trumpets Fade: When Trumpets Fade, Fire The Generals!

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:29:33 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author mcmaster - Sgt. Manning, Hot chow, coffee, cigarettes, we’re making another push. When Trumpets Fade 1998 HBO The Story When Trumpets Fade is set in the Hurtgen forest in the autumn of 1944. The Hurtgen Forest is was...

When Trumpets Fade: War is Hell: When Trumpets Fade

Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:25:38 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author George_Chabot - When Trumpets Fade does a great job of showing how, in wartime, the ones who think they are going to be heroes and the ones who actually become heroes are usually two different sets of people. Ron Eldard stars as Manning, a private with a...

When Trumpets Fade: Better you than me

Fri, 11 Feb 2000 14:48:01 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author Dragon_Breath - This cable movie isn't so much a war film as it is an allegorical tale.

Like most allegories it has to take some major factual leaps in order to make its point, so those leaps shouldn't be held against it.

The story here, about a private who...

When Trumpets Fade: When Trumpets Fade (1998)

Thu, 10 Feb 2000 23:53:05 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author BrianKoller - HBO has a reputation for making the best made-for-TV films. "When Trumpets Fade" won't change that evaluation. It is an intense, grim war drama based on an obscure World War II battle with the Germans that cost 24,000 American lives. Continuing...