![]() Some of his films include Home of the Brave (1949), Bright Victory (1951), Men in War (1957), and several films. Throughout much of his life, Edwards appeared in movies as an American soldier. After the war, he decided to set his eyes on the New York stage where he assumed the role of the war hero in the touring play Deep Are the Roots. He was commissioned during World War II as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. While at school he participated in student productions and in the Federal Theatre Project. He attended Knoxville College in Tennessee and later continued his education at Northwestern University where he received a master’s degree in drama. He is best known for his role, “Private Peter Moss” in the 1949 film Home of the Brave in which he portrayed a black soldier experiencing racist prejudice while serving in the South Pacific during World War II.Įdwards was born on March 6, 1918, in Hobart, Indiana. A mother yells at her son when she trips over a toy truck left on the floor.James Edwards was an actor in film and television. ![]() A man and a woman argue and she breaks up with him. ► A young man wears a T-shirt inscribed with transposed letters that are understood as an obscene remark toward the United States President and he is suspended from school for wearing it. ► We see people grieving at the funerals of dead soldiers. A man holds a gun in his hand and his wife believes that he will use it on himself (she manages to take it away from him). ► A soldier holds a gun on a military doctor and threatens to kill him if he doesn't save his friend (the soldier is subdued). Wounded soldiers on stretchers and in wheelchairs (most appear to be missing a limb) are lined up in a hospital hallway waiting for therapy. ► A woman lost her arm below the elbow after an injury and we see the wounded remains once, without her prosthetic device. Soldiers drive in armed military vehicles through roads and villages. ► A man in a pick up truck chases a woman in a car after she cuts him off on the road, and the truck swerves and speeds up behind her and flashes his lights. A dead dog is used to disguise an explosive on a roadway. ► A man carries a dead dog along dirt roads and through a bombed-out village and leaves it on a blanket in the road. ► Several people are disoriented and agitated by frequent flashbacks to combat situations in several scenes. A man punches a window in frustration (the window does not break). A man pushes and threatens his father with a hammer, and then uses the hammer to pound on a car. ► Two girls fight in a school: they shove each other, and a woman tries to break them up and is shoved hard against a wall. ► Armed soldiers roust men out of a car, and one man is pushed against the car. ![]() A man describes in some gory detail the conditions of a medical facility in a desert military camp. ► A military doctor talks about four soldiers dying one day and that he amputated so many arms and legs. During a gun battle a soldier falls from a ledge and hurts his back. ► A man shoves his son onto a dining table and pulls the ring out of his lip piercing (we see blood on the young man's face and see a scar later. ► Police surround a donut shop where a man holds several people hostage using a gun, the man stands up at the window and is shot and killed by police (we see the bullet hole in his chest and blood on the floor around him). A doctor puts a powder on a woman's badly injured hand (we see the bloody hand) and she writhes in pain. ► During a gun battle a man is shot in the leg, and a man is shot in the neck three times (blood spurts). ► A man recalls being bombed while in a military camp medical facility and we see many wounded soldiers with bloody and missing limbs. ► A military vehicle is blocked on a road, the soldiers become anxious and suspicious of people walking, and they are fired upon: one soldier is stuck by a bullet, an explosive is shot into one vehicle and it explodes, another solider is shot in the throat (we see blood), two other soldiers are struck and fall on the ground, and a soldier shoots a woman (blood spurts and she falls the ground). VIOLENCE/GORE 8 - A military vehicle drives through a village, a bomb explodes next to it as it passes, one passenger is killed instantly (we see him with charred and misshaped features and skin), and the other is badly injured (we see her with a very bloody arm and face and she is missing two fingers on one hand). ![]()
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