A Time Out of War

1954
22m

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Corey Allen and Barry Atwater in A Time Out of War (1954)

A dramatic incident from the American Civil War when two Union soldiers and one Confederate soldier, facing each other at a battle front, agree on an hour's truce.A dramatic incident from the American Civil War when two Union soldiers and one Confederate soldier, facing each other at a battle front, agree on an hour's truce.A dramatic incident from the American Civil War when two Union soldiers and one Confederate soldier, facing each other at a battle front, agree on an hour's truce.

Director
- Denis Sanders
Writers
- Denis Sanders
- Robert W. Chambers
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6.6/10

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Director
- Denis Sanders
Writers
- Denis Sanders
- Robert W. Chambers
Stars

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Won 1 Oscar
- 3 wins & 1 nomination total

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Barry Atwater

Craig

Robert Sherry

Alden

Corey Allen

Connor
(as Alan Cohen)

Director
- Denis Sanders
Writers
- Denis Sanders
- Robert W. Chambers
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6/10

a break from fighting (a truce, one might say)

While watching "A Time Out of War", I was reminded of the story about the Christmas Truce during World War I, where soldiers on opposite sides briefly stopped fighting, even seeing each other as human. Obviously Denis Sanders's Academy Award-winning short is set during the US Civil War, with a Union and a Confederate troop taking an hour off fighting.

The short probably would've been more effective had it addressed slavery, not that I would expect a movie from 1954 to do so. Even so, it was an interesting short. Over the past few years I've been trying to watch a lot of the Oscar-winning short films. This one's worth seeing.

Denis Sanders later directed the sci-fi flick "Invasion of the Bee Girls".