{"id":17319,"date":"2020-12-18T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T17:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/18\/fighting-on-film-battleground-1949-van-johnson-william-a-wellman-ricardo-montalban\/"},"modified":"2020-12-18T11:00:30","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T17:00:30","slug":"fighting-on-film-battleground-1949-van-johnson-william-a-wellman-ricardo-montalban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/18\/fighting-on-film-battleground-1949-van-johnson-william-a-wellman-ricardo-montalban\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting On Film: Battleground (1949) &#8211; Van Johnson &#8211; William A. Wellman &#8211; Ricardo Montalban"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UfUavTsrdAU?autoplay=1&#038;controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In this episode of the Fighting On Film war movie podcast we discuss the Oscar-winning 1949 classic &#8216;Battleground&#8217;. It follows a platoon of the 101st Airborne besieged within Bastogne. Directed by William A. Wellman and staring Van Johnson, Ricardo Montalban, James Whitmore and George Murphy. It cleverly captures the cold confines of the Ardennes and the hardships the men at Bastogne faced.<\/p>\n<p>Be sure to follow us on Twitter [<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FightingOnFilm]\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/FightingOnFilm]<\/a> and let us know what you thought of the episode and if you&#8217;ve watched the film.<\/p>\n<p>Also available on other platforms and apps &#8211; find them here: <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/fightingonfilm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/linktr.ee\/fightingonfilm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for listening! <\/p>\n<p>Contents:<br \/>\nIntroduction &#8211; 0:00<br \/>\nCast &#038; Crew &#8211; 3:30<br \/>\nIt Feels Cold!  &#8211; 5:30<br \/>\nCharacter Pastiches? &#8211; 11:25<br \/>\nCinematography &#8211; 14:20<br \/>\nMatt&#8217;s Favourite Scene &#8211; 16:30<br \/>\nGarand Ping? &#8211; 19:05<br \/>\nThe Ally Tally &#8211; 20:00<br \/>\nRobbie&#8217;s Favourite Scenes &#8211; 22:40<br \/>\nFinal Thoughts &#8211; 31:30<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of the Fighting On Film war movie podcast we discuss the Oscar-winning 1949 classic &#8216;Battleground&#8217;. It follows a platoon of the 101st Airborne besieged within Bastogne. Directed by William A. Wellman and staring Van Johnson, Ricardo Montalban, James Whitmore and George Murphy. It cleverly captures the cold confines of the Ardennes and&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2020\/12\/18\/fighting-on-film-battleground-1949-van-johnson-william-a-wellman-ricardo-montalban\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fighting On Film: Battleground (1949) &#8211; Van Johnson &#8211; William A. Wellman &#8211; Ricardo Montalban<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}