Between Heaven and Hell (1956) on Netflix
Sam Gifford, a plantation owner serving as a National Guard sergeant in the Pacific, strikes an officer. He is demoted and sent to a punishment company under Captain Waco Grimes.
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Before the war, Sam Gifford ran a cotton plantation in the South, hard on the sharecroppers who worked for him, and married to Jenny, the daughter of Colonel Cousins, who commanded his National Guard unit. In the Pacific, Gifford serves as a sergeant, and after a lieutenant fires on his own men, Gifford beats him and is reduced to private in a punishment company. Its commander, Captain Waco Grimes, is dictatorial. Around Gifford are the working-class soldiers he once kept at a distance, among them Willie Crawford, a former sharecropper. Gifford admits to the men that he looked down on people outside his own class and says he means to change.
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- Fox assigned the 1955 novel to Rod Serling, a Philippines veteran famed for his television plays, but his first screenplay came in at nine hours long. The project then went to other writers, notably Harry Brown, who had written the book A Walk in the Sun.
