

Reportedly, the first assembled cut took seven months to edit and ran five hours. It co-stars Adrien Brody, George Clooney, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Jared Leto, John C. The film marked Malick's return to filmmaking after a 20-year absence. The novel's title alludes to a line from Rudyard Kipling's poem " Tommy", from Barrack-Room Ballads, in which he calls British foot soldiers "the thin red line of heroes", referring to the stand of the 93rd Regiment in the Battle of Balaclava of the Crimean War. soldiers of C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, played by Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas and Ben Chaplin. Telling a fictionalized version of the Battle of Mount Austen, which was part of the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II, it portrays U.S. It is the second screen adaptation of the 1962 novel of the same name by James Jones, following the 1964 film.


The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American epic war film written and directed by Terrence Malick.
