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Why did MGM cut John Huston’s The Red Badge of Courage to 69 minutes?
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John Huston (left) on the set of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
MGM executives decided to cut John Huston’s 1951 adaptation of The Red Badge of Courage to 69 minutes because they believed the film’s antiwar message was too blatant, particularly given that the Korean War was raging at the time.1