Fixed Bayonets

Fixed Bayonets
by Samuel Fuller

Fixed Bayonets
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Actor: Craig Hill, Gene Evans, Michael O'Shea, Richard Basehart, Richard Hylton
Director: Samuel Fuller
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: Lucien Ballard
Writer: Samuel Fuller
Editor: Nick DeMaggio
Producer: Jules Buck
Writer: John Brophy
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-04-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox

Movie Reviews of Fixed Bayonets

Movie Review: fixed bayonets
Summary: 4 Stars

this movie is worth a spot in my collection.
other than some typical american rah rah left over from ww2 era movie cookie cutters, this is actually a fairly interesting movie. solid performances are given all around. this movie makes a good case for esp in the non verbal communication phenomenon. i cant think of another conventional movie that really delves into this phenomenon. war movie buffs will love this one, because it is rarely, if ever played.keep your eyes peeled for a cameo performance from james dean!

Summary of Fixed Bayonets

The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsiblity.System Requirements:Run Time: 92 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre:?DRAMA Rating:?NR UPC:?024543432838 Manufacturer No:?2243283
Not your typical star-studded or star-spangled war film, cult-fave director Samuel Fuller's Fixed Bayonets is a viscerally thrilling Korean War drama of one platoon's trial, and one corporal's baptism, under fire. Morale is high but the ammo is low for an American division hunkered down in the mountains of Korea. Certain massacre awaits if they retreat. To give "15,000 men a break," 48 "of our toughest combat men" are selected to stay behind and trick the "commies" into thinking the entire division is in place while the others escape safely across a river. Fixed Bayonets is raw and brutal in the best Fuller tradition. The backgrounds are obvious fakes, and the platoon members sport the usual war movie nicknames like Whitey, Rock, Jonesy, and "Mr. Belvedere" (he's the resident know-it-all). But all else has the authentic ring of reportage, as in a powerful scene when the men cluster together to rub their feet to ward off frostbite. Richard Basehart stars as Denno, who can "take an order, but can't give one" until his three superiors are knocked off one by one, leaving him in command. This rueful exchange--"They told me this was going to be a police action." "Why didn't they send the cops?"--is as close as Fuller gets to geopolitics. For war-movie buffs, he does deliver pounding and tense action sequences. In one harrowing scene, a medic must navigate a minefield to try and rescue a wounded sergeant and retrieve the only map to the field.. But he is resolutely unsentimental and more interested in the ravaged, human face of war. These are faces you will not soon forget (one of them, reportedly, belongs to James Dean, but this film is so gripping, one is hard-pressed to make the effort to try to spot him). --Donald Liebenson

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