Kings Go Forth

Infobox Film
name = Kings Go Forth


image_size = 175px
caption = dvd cover
director = Delmer Daves
producer = Frank Ross
writer = Joe David Brown "(novel)"
Merle Miller
starring = Frank Sinatra
Tony Curtis
Natalie Wood
music = Elmer Bernstein
cinematography = Daniel L. Fapp
editing = William B. Murphy
distributor = United Artists
released = 28 June fy|1958
runtime = 109 minutes
country = FilmUS
language = English
budget =
gross =
imdb_id = 0051819

"Kings Go Forth" is a fy|1958 black-and-white World War II film starring Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood. The screenplay was written by Merle Miller from the novel of the same name by Joe David Brown, and the film was directed by Delmer Daves. The plot involves friends of different backgrounds manning an observation post in Southern France who fall in love with the same French girl. Themes of racism and miscegenation provide the conflict elements between the leading characters, something that was out of the ordinary for films of the time, while the setting during the so-called "Champagne Campaign" remains unique.

Of his role in "Kings Go Forth," Tony Curtis said that it was the "most difficult" of his career, while Sinatra, despite his liberal credentials, said that he "took the part as a performer, not a lecturer on racial problems."

At the US box office, "Kings Go Forth" was a moderate hit that was received without great adulation from critics, but hardly lambasted.

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*imdb title|0051819
*tcmdb title|17626
*amg movie|1:150637