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5 CAME BACK (USA, 2017) - 5 CAME BACK is an irresistibly watchable and ebullient celebration of five remarkable Hollywood studio directors – William Wyler, Frank Capra, George Stevens, John Ford and John Huston – who tackled the second world war head on. These were the patriotic idealists who put their talents to work on the frontline, creating enlightened propaganda for Uncle Sam. It is a romantic story in its way, although one that sometimes succumbs to its own need for derring-do and self-mythologizing. This film is the story of how these directors changed the war. It shows that some were all-American, some European émigrés or people with links to Europe and Britain, and so wanting to fight the fascists setting Europe ablaze. But it was the fact that they were movie directors that was important: they were natural leaders, autocratic and attuned to the field of battle. In that analogue age, movies were about marshalling huge numbers of people in actual spaces.
