The Execution of Private Slovik (DVD) 1974 Martin Sheen Based on a true story

The Execution of Private Slovik 1974 DVD (Region 1 - Playable in North America - The US, Canada, Mexico, etc.) Color. Beautifully re-mastered print with a new - temporary - lower price! Starring: Martin Sheen, Ned Beatty, Gary Busey, Matt Clark, Charles Haid, Mariclare Costello, Ben Hammer, Warren J Kemmerling, Paul Lambert, Paul Cedar, Kathryn Grody, Paul Shenar, Bill McKinney. Written by Richard Levinson and William Link, based on the book by William Bradford Huie. Directed by Lamont Johnson. In January 1945, Private Eddie Slovik was executed in France, the only American soldier shot for desertion since the civil war. General Eisenhower refused to commute the sentence. Based on William Bradford Huie's 1954 book, the movie was finally made for TV in 1974, directed by veteran Lamont Johnson. It attracted a record audience (the largest ever prior to Roots) and is a sombre, sober, unsentimental work about chance fate, the arbitrary horrors of war and people trapped in a bureaucratic mac