The Red Badge of Courage

“Stephen Crane's Great American Story of the Civil War”

A Union regiment waits in camp for its first battle, and the Youth (Audie Murphy) has no idea how he will behave once the shooting starts. When it comes, he runs, and then he lets the other soldiers think a wound sent him from the field. John Huston, working from Stephen Crane's novel, follows a boy who must decide whether he can live with his own fear.