Hell Is For Heroes

Hell Is For Heroes
by Don Siegel

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Actor: Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, James Coburn, Steve McQueen
Director: Don Siegel
Brand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 89 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-05-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount

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Movie Review: Pinned in front of a pillbox!
Summary: 5 Stars

I'm a fan of WWII films and in these last days I was able to see & enjoy some gems of the genre that I've been searching for a long time.
"Hell is for Heroes" (1962) is an excellent (yet underrated) World War II movie, directed by Don Sigel, who is also responsible for such great movies as "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956) and "Dirty Harry" (1971).
This film, with a low-budget allotment, is sustained by brilliant play-acting & intelligent script due to Robert Pirosh (also accountable for "Battleground" (1949)).

The story is situated ending 1944 as American troops try to force the Siegfried Line.
Pvt. Reese is a former NCO reduced in rank for rebellious controversial attitudes; he arrives as last minute replacement.
Once the battalion is in line the squad to which Reese is assigned, is left alone with the objective of maintaining a difficult position for a couple of days while the rest of the company is needed elsewhere.
Those stark 48 hours are the core of the film. Soldiers & NCOs are confronted with limit situations where they must act following their best judgment.

Playacting is excellent with outstanding McQueen performance as Reese, deserving IMHO more recognition. Fess Parker as Sgt. Pike & James Coburn as Cpl. Henshaw give solid personification as well.
Music composed by Leonard Rosenman underline notably each action.

It is a very commendable movie for all those interested in war films.
Reviewed by Max Yofre.

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Summary of Hell Is For Heroes

Exhausted gls are ordered to hold part of the siegfried line guarded by a pillbox. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 05/23/2006 Starring: Steve Mcqueen Nick Adams Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Don Siegel

Don Siegel brings his tough worldview and crisp, no-nonsense direction to this quintessential World War II drama of an undermanned American platoon in France holding off a German advance through sheer bluff and bravery. Steve McQueen is curt and surly as the insubordinate loner whose tactical skills and soldiering savvy make him indispensable to his new unit. His reputation precedes him, but commander Fess Parker is in no position to be choosy when he learns that his tired platoon will not be shipping home as rumored, but tossed into a ragged new offensive. Harry Guardino costars as the soulful Sarge; James Coburn is the slow-talking, forever-tinkering mechanic; Bobby Darin is the scavenger with a small fortune in trinkets; and Nick Adams is the Polish orphan and unit mascot. Bob Newhart makes his feature debut as a hopelessly lost typing clerk drafted into the undermanned unit and re-creates his nightclub shtick making phony phone calls near a Nazi listening post in the pillbox. Like Pork Chop Hill, this film is less a patriotic flag waver than a "war is hell" drama that frames the battle not in its tactical importance (which is negligible) but in its cost in human life. McQueen's taciturn performance as a ruthlessly effective soldier and Siegel's tough, lean direction make it a modest classic of the genre. --Sean Axmaker

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