No Man's Land (1964 film)
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| director = Pat Boyette
Russ Harvey
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| starring = Russ Harvey
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| released = {{Film date|1964|01|24|df=yes}}
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| country = United States
| language = English
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No Man's Land is a 1964 American black-and-white{{Cite web |title=No Mans Land 1964 The Korean War |url=https://www.rarewarfilms.com/No%20Mans%20Land%20%201964%20The%20Korean%20War.html |access-date=2023-04-16 |website=www.rarewarfilms.com |language=en}} war drama film written and produced by Russ Harvey, who also plays the main role. The film is set during the Korean War. No Man’s Land was released under Harvey's name as director but the film appears to have actually been directed by Pat Boyette.
Plot
During the Korean War, a U.S. Army Corporal falls in love with a Korean girl.{{Citation |title=«No Man's Land» (1964) |url=https://en.kinorium.com/203464/ |access-date=2023-04-16 |language=en}}
Cast
- Russ Harvey as Corporal Jerry Little
- Kim Lee as Anna Wong
- Lee Morgan
Production
No Man's Land was filmed in and around San Antonio, Texas in 1962,{{Cite web |title=AFI{{!}}Catalog |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/22191-NO-MANSLAND?sid=f4bd8df7-5147-40be-91bf-269a139e0305&sr=10.216105&cp=1&pos=3 |access-date=2023-04-16 |website=catalog.afi.com}} partly on the ranch of Major General Harry H. Johnson on the S. Flores Road.{{cite news |last=Ashford |first=Gerald |date=25 January 1964 |title=Brilliant camerawork fails to save 'The Ceremony' |page=6A |newspaper=Express and News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/29603104/?terms=%22no%20man%27s%20land%22%20%22russ%20harvey%22&match=1}}
The film was directed and produced by Russ Harvey. Harvey played the main role in the film; he later starred (also in the lead role) in Dungeon of Horror, released in 1964.{{Cite web |title=AFI{{!}}Catalog |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Person/136458-Russ-Harvey?isMiscCredit=False |access-date=2023-04-16 |website=catalog.afi.com}} These were his only contributions to the film industry. Both films were low budget productions shot in San Antonio.{{Cite web |title=AFI{{!}}Catalog |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/19301-DUNGEONS-OF-HORROR?cxt=filmography |access-date=2023-04-16 |website=catalog.afi.com}}
Various sources mention Pat Boyette as director or co-director{{Cite web |title=Boyette, Pat and Russ Harvey. No Man's Land. USA, 1964., 1964. {{!}} HOLLIS for |url=https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/23/archival_objects/2024569 |access-date=2023-04-16 |website=hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu}}/producer of No Man's Land, even stating that he had "complete creative control"{{Cite web |title=The Comics Reporter |url=https://www.comicsreporter.com/index.php/resources/longbox/69 |access-date=2023-04-16 |website=www.comicsreporter.com}} over the film, which Frank T. Thompson confirms in Texas Hollywood: Filmmaking in San Antonio Since 1910.Frank T. Thompson, Texas Hollywood: Filmmaking in San Antonio Since 1910 (2002, University of Indiana), pp. 44-46 ( "The Idiosyncratic Pat Boyette"); p. 71.
Release
No Man's Land premiered in San Antonio in January 1964.{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/29602633/?terms=%22no%20man%27s%20land%22%20%22russ%20harvey%22&match=1|title=War film made in Bexar County Opens Friday|newspaper=Express and News|date=19 January 1964|page=7G}}
According to one review "the story is pointless and the acting is non existent. The best things about the movie are stock newsreel shots of actual combat."
References
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External links
- [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251298/ No Man's Land] at IMDb
- [https://letterboxd.com/film/no-mans-land-1964/ No Man's Land] at Letterbox DVD
Category:1960s English-language films