Hell Is For Heroes
by Don Siegel
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Actor: Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, James Coburn, Steve McQueenDirector: 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
Movie Reviews of Hell Is For Heroes
Movie Review: Steve the Soldier
Summary: 3 Stars
Steve in fine form as a rugged loner trapped by Germans with a few of his fellow dogfaces. More like a tv show than a movie because of the cheap set and low-budget look of the whole film it manages to sail along holding one's interest with lots of dramatic interest by scenery-chewers like Bob Newhart doing a long comedy shtick somewhat peculiarly in the middle of the film. This movie did a lot of good for McQueen's career and helped cement its status as a classic of the genre.
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 SiegelDon 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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