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It's 1951 in Korea, a time that the United States Army doesn't like to remember. The Communists, led by Chinese forces, are tearing up the battlefield and overrunning American and South Korean positions, and in the midst of it Sgt. Paul William Ryker (Lee Marvin), decorated World War II hero with medals that would be the envy of any man in uniform, has been convicted of treason for allegedly deserting, going over to the enemy and spending weeks behind enemy lines. He's scheduled to be executed, but Capt. David Young (Bradford Dillman), the prosecutor in the case, begins to worry that Ryker wasn't properly represented at trial. He believes Ryker was guilty but wants him to be convicted fairly...
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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 0 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: It's 1951 in Korea, a time that the United States Army doesn't like to remember. The Communists, led by Chinese forces, are tearing up the battlefield and overrunning American and South Korean positions, and in the midst of it, Sgt. Paul William Ryker (Lee Marvin), decorated World War II hero, with medals that would be the envy of any man in uniform, has been convicted of treason for allegedly deserting, going over to the enemy, and spending weeks behind enemy lines. He's scheduled to be executed, but Capt. David Young (Bradford Dillman), the prosecutor in the case, begins to worry that Ryker wasn't properly represented at trial - he believes Ryker was guilty, but wants him to be convicted fairly. It hardly endears Young to the men around him when he starts pressing his doubts, and then he meets Ryker's wife, Ann (Vera Miles), who doesn't have the best of marriages but believes her husband is innocent. They start working together and, in the process, become attracted to each other. Ryker claims that a now-deceased counter-intelligence officer, Colonel Chambers, recruited him for a secret mission that would take him behind enemy lines, allegedly as an American turncoat, all to help plug a leak in his own command - but Chambers was killed just 24 hours after Ryker's mission started, and nothing in his effects verifies Ryker's story. Young is ordered to lay off the case by his commanding officer, the new head of counter-intelligence, and General Bailey (Lloyd Nolan), commanding the sector, but Young risks his career to get Ryker a new trial. Now he's got to defend the man himself, against his own commanding officer as prosecutor, and prepare for his own court martial for conduct unbecoming an officer, for his affair with Ann Ryker. ...Sergeant Ryker
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I bought this to complete my collection of Lee Marvin DVDs. I would be the first to admit that the over use of Marvin's name is inappropriate though he is as always interesting, especially in military story movies given his personal history.
This movie is from the 60s so not quite as early in his career as inferred by one reviewer. The production was clearly a TV quickie done on a low budget and many other stories on Korea and how Americans were mis-used in that conflict have done the theme far better (notably the great "Time Line" with Richard Basehart and Richard Widmark) to which this production seems to indirectly owe a debt and the "Manchurian Candidate").
Indeed the story does push your credulity at times, especially the reasons for a mis-trial and how that is handled in evidence, so ends up being ultimately so-so and not very engaging.
I must admit that I really could not recommend this DVD to anyone other than a Marvin completist like myself.
This movie is from the 60s so not quite as early in his career as inferred by one reviewer. The production was clearly a TV quickie done on a low budget and many other stories on Korea and how Americans were mis-used in that conflict have done the theme far better (notably the great "Time Line" with Richard Basehart and Richard Widmark) to which this production seems to indirectly owe a debt and the "Manchurian Candidate").
Indeed the story does push your credulity at times, especially the reasons for a mis-trial and how that is handled in evidence, so ends up being ultimately so-so and not very engaging.
I must admit that I really could not recommend this DVD to anyone other than a Marvin completist like myself.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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WENT TO SEE LEE MARVIN IN "SERGEANT RYKER" ABOUT A YEAR AFTER "THE DIRTY DOZEN" WHICH WAS A COMPLETE CONTRAST, AND THOUGHT MARVIN STOLE THE MOVIE,HE ALWAYS GAVE ME THE IMPRESSION THAT HIS MOOD AND EXPRESSION COULD AT ANY SECOND CHANGE, ALTHOUGH THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN "DOZEN" AND "RYKER" WAS SLOWER, MARVIN CARRIED THE MOVIE WITH EXCELLENCE!!!!
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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During the Korean war, an Army sergeant by the name of Ryker (Lee Marvin) has been court martialed and found guilty of treason for deserting and going over to the Red Chinese. However, he insists he was under a secret assignment by a high ranking Colonel that no one knew about. The only problem is that the Colonel is now dead and cannot corroborate his story. Originally made for television some five years earlier when Marvin wasn't yet a Star but released to cinemas as a feature film after his Oscar win made him a box office leading man. It looks like a TV movie and its limited budget didn't allow location shooting so the Universal back lot subs for Japan and Korea with obvious stock footage inserted into the film for an air attack by North Korea as well as the landscape. That aside, the film works as a decent if unmemorable courtroom suspenser even though Ryker's guilt or innocence is purposely left ambiguous. Directed by Buzz Kulik with an early score by John Williams. With Vera Miles as Ryker's wife, Bradford Dillman as his defense attorney, Lloyd Nolan, Peter Graves, Murray Hamilton and Norman Fell.
The DVD via Boulevard is a clean if undistinguished transfer.
The DVD via Boulevard is a clean if undistinguished transfer.
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