The cold rain is relentless. Huddled in the mountains, the Gls are soaked,
weary, miserable. One might say it was hell on earth, but these men know
better. They already walked through hell when they spearheaded the
invasions of North Africa and Sicily. Waiting next is something worse the
brutal nightmare of Anzio.
In his first starring movie role, James Garner plays Col. William Darby and
William A. Wellman (Battleground. The Story of GI Joe directs Darby's
Rangers, the heroic saga of the on- and off-battlefield lives of America's fierce
World War II fighting forces. Jack Warden, Edward Byrnes, Stuart Whitman
and others fall in as elite commandos trained in assault tactics. Exposed to
greaser frontline danger, their losses were high but so was their courage.