during the first world war the american hero out of that conflict and alvin c. york of tennessee and have to wait until the outbreak of the second world war for his biographical film to be make . world war ii equivalent from east texas only wait ten year and have the singular honor of star in the film of his own life . good thing audie murphy become a hollywood star because he get to both write his own story and have universal studio produce the film a to his specification . to hell and back be his story and but it also the story of the men who serve with him and those who come back from hell and those who remain . what i like best about to hell and back be the camaraderie and spirit and the relationship between murphy and the men of his outfit . the story start in north africa where his company arrive too late for the fighting there and but just in time to be part of the offensive to take sicily . then it salerno and up the western italian coast and into france with the landing in southern france until germany . at each stop murphy grows in admiration and respect from those over and around him . such player a jack kelly and paul picerni and marshall thompson and charles drake support murphy very well . to hell and back also show what a roll of the dice combat be . it could just a easily be murphy a any of the cast that be kill and doesn not make it to the end of the film . stay alive be a singular accomplishment . all of these guy be hero . a lot of the fame and glory murphy won be due to luck and opportunity and he would have be the first to admit it . when do you get a film with 100 % perfect casting for the lead . you get it in to hell and back with audie murphy play the man his comrade call little texas . a nice film about the great soldier of the great generation .