Hell Is for Heroes (1962)

United States of America

War

Paramount

Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, James Coburn, Mike Kellin

Don Siegel

Richard Carr, Robert Pirosh

Taglines: The brutal realities that faced every G.I. during World War II

france, nazi, germany, world war ii, infantry, us army, europe

World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a rest area. While most of the men withdraw from their positions facing a German pillbox at the far side of a mine-field, half a dozen men are left to protect a wide front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a large force is still holding the position. Then Reese leads two of the men in an unauthorized and unsuccessful attack on the pillbox, in which the other two are killed; and when the main platoon returns, he is threatened with court-martial. Rather that face the disgrace, and in an attempt to show he was right, he makes a one-man attack on the pillbox.

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