{"id":24829,"date":"2019-11-08T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T09:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/11\/08\/audie-murphy-made-a-name-for-himself-in-battle-and-on-the-screen\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:30:18","slug":"audie-murphy-made-a-name-for-himself-in-battle-and-on-the-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/military-honor\/2019\/11\/08\/audie-murphy-made-a-name-for-himself-in-battle-and-on-the-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Audie Murphy made a name for himself in battle and on the screen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Midway through \u201cPlatoon\u201d (1986), Oliver Stone\u2019s classic film about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historynet.com\/experiencing-vietnam-movies.htm\">Vietnam War<\/a>, a brash private reassures a squad mate assigned to share his foxhole, \u201cDon\u2019t you worry, Junior. You\u2019re hanging with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historynet.com\/audie-murphy-one-man-stand-at-holtzwihr.htm\">Audie Murphy<\/a> here, my man!\u201d He doesn\u2019t have to explain the name \u2014 or the reputation \u2014 he\u2019s evoking. The squad mate knows. The audience knows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Audie Murphy was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historynet.com\/the-price-of-valor.htm\">well-known<\/a> as the most highly decorated American soldier of World War II\u2014 indeed, in the entire military history of the United States. He was practically a household name before the war\u2019s end, and his fame skyrocketed after the debut of \u201cTo Hell and Back,&#8221; the 1955 film based on Murphy\u2019s 1949 memoir. \u201cTo Hell and Back\u201d was autobiographical in a different sense as well, for in it Murphy played himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Contrary to common belief, \u201cTo Hell and Back\u201d was not the soldier-turned-actor\u2019s first film. Soon after the war, he had been discovered by James Cagney, who perceived a star quality in the slightly-built 20-year-old with a demeanor at once soft-spoken and uncompromising. It took time, but parts came Murphy\u2019s way; \u201cTo Hell and Back\u201d was actually his 16th onscreen appearance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was also his most personal film, and he approached it very differently from his previous productions, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.historynet.com\/100-greatest-western-movies.htm\">Western films<\/a> in which he frequently appeared. Murphy had a reputation for being easygoing, but with \u201cTo Hell and Back\u201d he was much more hands-on, serving as an uncredited technical adviser and making crucial casting decisions. He insisted that the script reflect the experience of all infantrymen, not just his own. \u201cI\u2019ve always felt their story should be told,\u201d said Murphy. \u201cI just play a part in it.\u201d He knew that the audience would include thousands of veterans, noting, \u201cThere\u2019s going to be one hell of a jury looking at this film and reviewing it out front.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo Hell and Back\u201d was shot in 1954, primarily at the U.S. Army base at Fort Lewis, Washington, which provided lavish assistance in the form of tanks, trucks, and other vehicles. Nonetheless, the battle sequences made Murphy uneasy. They seemed like pale imitations of reality \u2014 \u201cpowder-puff battle,\u201d he observed. The scenes made him uneasy for another reason as well because they sometimes caused his actual combat experiences to come flooding back. \u201cYour mind plays back something that you don\u2019t want to hear or see or feel again,\u201d he said. Director Jesse Hibbs noted in combat scenes that Murphy \u201cdidn\u2019t seem to think about acting. There was a primitive alertness about him\u2026. He reacted to every explosion and every sound of machine-gun fire instinctively.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although Murphy displayed heroism on many battlefields, two incidents did more than any others to make him America\u2019s most decorated soldier. In one of them, Murphy seized a captured German machine gun and used it to wipe out 22 enemies. He did this partially in reaction to the death of his best friend, Lattie Tipton, called \u201cBrandon\u201d in the film. Brandon was played by Charles Drake, whom Murphy selected because they had been in previous films together and Drake reminded him of Tipton. Murphy had trouble nerving himself to relive the death of his friend, and Hibbs had to delay shooting the scene until Murphy could handle it. When filming began, Hibbs felt as though \u201cAudie wasn\u2019t doing much acting in it. He played it as he felt it. His lips were quivering and his eyes filled\u2026. When Charles Drake was hit and cried out \u2018Murphy \u2019\u2014 Audie wasn\u2019t acting from there on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Murphy\u2019s other great battlefield feat occurred in the Colmar Pocket in France, when he climbed aboard a blazing tank destroyer, manned its machine gun, and single-handedly fought off two reinforced companies of German infantry. In the film, the scene is so incredible that it would have come across as outlandish if the audience did not already know that Murphy had experienced it in real life. Even then, it had moments that seemed more like Hollywood than reality. At one point Murphy calls in artillery fire, and the Fire Direction Center asks just how close the Germans are to his position. \u201cHold the phone, and I\u2019ll let you talk to them!\u201d he replies. Yet during the battle, Murphy had made that very retort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo Hell and Back\u2019s\u201d final scene shows Murphy receiving the Medal of Honor. Murphy hated the scene and wanted to kill it. Most viewers would be aware of that outcome, he reasoned. \u201cAnd for the others, the events will speak for themselves.\u201d It took two whole days for director Hibbs to persuade Murphy that a film about America\u2019s most decorated hero could only end with his being awarded the greatest honor his country had to give. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>This story was originally published in the August 2019 issue of <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/worldwarii.com\/\"><i>World War II<\/i><\/a><i> magazine. 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