Product Review

SPECIAL EDITION DIRECTOR'S CUT. In a personal letter to writer/director Marino Amoruso, Oscar winner Tom Hanks wrote "G.I. Joe: The Ernie Pyle Story is the best documentary film ever done about the true heroes of World War II, the common soldier." This national PBS special is a moving tribute to the "Greatest Generation." Ernie Pyle was the most beloved war correspondent this nation has ever known. No one wrote more movingly and realistically about the common man in war than did Pyle. This film tells the story of World War II from the perspective of the G.I. in the foxhole and on the front line. Pyle's best columns - from the bombing in London (1939) to the end of the war in the Pacific (1945) - are utilized in the first person. Special guests include: Former President Gerald Ford, Andy Rooney, Walter Cronkite, Charles Kuralt and James Whitmore. Narrated by Harry Carey Jr. with William Windom as "The Voice of Ernie Pyle". Steven Spielberg, who also wrote to Amoruso stated "Your national PBS television special on the legendary World War II correspondent, Ernie Pyle, makes history seem immediate again..... It's a wonderful film."