646f9e108c The 36th infantry is fighting its way through Italy under the spirited leadership of Captain Jim Benedict. His men include flirt D'Angelo, who carries his guitar along, plus pals Lucavich and Hanson. McKenna is the free wheeling Sergeant.
The pilot of "Combat" was notwell madethe pilot of "The Gallant Men".<br/><br/>Robert Altman directed the pilot of "The Gallant Men". He was key in casting all the regulars. Boris Sagal ("Rich Man, Poor Man") directed the pilot for "Combat", but never did another episode. The producers of "Combat" hated the look of their pilot and loved the look of the "Gallant Men" pilot. The producers convinced Altman to move over to "Combat"a producer-writer-director. Altman did some of his best work on the first season of "Combat", and he got the series off to a superb start. Altman says on a "Combat" DVD commentary of an episode with Albert Salmi that he never got better than thata director. Altman also said that "Combat" had a better cast than "The Gallant Men", even though he cast "The Gallant Men" and had nothing to do with casting "Combat".<br/><br/>"The Gallant Men" was probably suggested by "The Story of G.I. Joe" (1945) where Burgess Meredith played war correspondent Ernie Pyle and Robert Mitchum played an infantry captain. In "The Gallant Men", Robert McQueeney was top billedwar correspondent Conley Wright. <br/><br/>"The Gallant Men" focused on a company while "Combat" focused on a single squad. The squad level turned out to be the ideal vehicle to tell war stories and to allow the viewer to get close to the characters. "Combat" also benefited from having one of the 1960's best series performances: Vic MorrowSergeant Saunders. Morrow was nominated for an Emmy for the first season of "Combat", but lost to E.G. Marshall ("The Defenders"). "Combat" also hired superb guest stars that Warner Brothers would never pay up for: Jeffrey Hunter, Lee Marvin, James Coburn, Rip Torn, John Cassavetes and many others. And finally, "Combat" paid for better writers and wound up with much better scripts.<br/><br/>Warner Brothers was a very cheap outfit, although they often did manage to make compelling shows.<br/><br/>Robert Conrad gave an excellent guest star performance on "The Gallant Men"a sergeant who was the brother of series hero Captain Benedict (well played by William Reynolds.) Robert Conrad might have been brillianta tough squad leader, maybe evengoodVic Morrow. Conrad should have been brought inthe new series star. The show should have focused on Conrad's squad rather than the company. The most appealing regular on "The Gallant Men" was 23-year old Roger DavisPrivate Gibson. Conrad could bring Gibson along from episode to episode until finally Gibson is given a battlefield commission and becomes Conrad's platoon leader. This could have led to a strongly written and played relationship that could have given the show a dramatic center-something it badly needed.<br/><br/>Robert Altman's original conception for "The Gallant Men" was to kill off the regulars from week to week. This was a fascinating idea that could have made the series very realistic and emotionally involving. If Robert Altman had stayed on board, "The Gallant Men" might have given "Combat" a run for its money.
I've been looking for this show for awhile, and recently found a episode and bits of other episodes on youtube, so I realize this review is not going to reflect a great deal of knowledge but I think I saw enough to comment. First off I'm a younger Baby Boomer who saw Combat! frequently growing up in reruns along with an infrequent showing of Rat Patrol on WGN during the 80's. I also got my hands on copies of Twelve O'Clock High and Garrison's Guerilla's so apart from the comedy War TV shows (McHales Navy and Hogans Heroes) that pretty much covers 90% of the TV War drama shows from the 60's. Let me tell you, they all are fun to watch (well maybe not Garrison's Guerilla's after you have watched more then two episodes), but I really think The Gallant Men stands outmy favorite. It seems like many reviewers compare this to Combat! and that they prefer it, I am the other way around. I watched the episode Signal's For An End Run and right away there were 7 American casualties, that NEVER happened in Combat except maybe in the pilot when they are in D Day (which I never saw). Combat boils down to 5 Americans or less facing 5 Germans or less in the woods in France somewhere usually with a French spy or Allie involved and a guest star American with coward issues or psycho issues, they put these guys in the same fake "Bonanza" woods and threw in a half track or two. It was cool to watcha kid because lets face it, that was all there was being shown, and they had the best intro music and titles of all time, but evena kid it got old for me. The Gallant Men has a horrible theme song and intro titles, but the rest of the show rocks! I mean in this one episode they had the Sergeant fall for an Italian partisan babe and they stood watch together at night and made out! I'd like to see Vic Morrow do that but I never did! So on top of all the friendly casualties (which adds to that thing called realism), there was an actual human factor of sexual tension involved, wow! The hardware I saw was really good, an actual Panther tank (it was made by Warner Brothers so they had some great props to choose from), plus lots of explosions not just M-1's firing, they threw in some enemy air footage (not the best stock footage but OK), and I mean there were a lot of elements involved (urban and rural warfare) not just 5 guys against 5 guys in fake woods! Only one season of this show was made but I'll be looking for all the episodes I can find. It's action packed like a Rat Patrol, has strong elements of drama like a Combat! and Twelve O'Clock High all in one package, plus the American carnage exceeds all three of those shows combined so it actually has more realism to it and isn't meant for kids. 10 of 10, I hope I can get my hands on all the episodes!


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