Gene Evans, Harold Fong, James Edwards
One of the greatest war films ever made, this film still retains considerable power when compared with today's more explicit offerings. Fuller regular Gene Evans plays a tough-as-nails sergeant who, b...( read more
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DVD Release Date: August 21, 2007
Stats: 60 reviews
i didn't think a film like this was possible in 1950's john wayne america; an emotionally honest portrait of soldiers under fire made at the height of the korean war. i have new found respect for sam fuller. this is in the league of paths of glory and bridge on the river kwai. ...( read more)
A crusty, war-weary infantry sergeant teams up with a Korean orphan boy and a rag-tag, disheveled group of American soldiers enroute to an abandoned Buddhist temple in order to establish a forward observation post for artillery. Once there they capture a North Korean major who i...( read more)
This director used to fire a gun on set to get his actors' attention, or so says my 85 year old film teacher
The first Samuel Fuller film for me. A decent war movie that culminates with an awesome shootout in the end. I think this movie does have some prryhic elements to it, but not as obvious as something like Seven Samurai. It's interesting that the little Korean boy in this film is r...( read more)
WWII vet Sam Fuller pulls no punches in this story of the U.S. infantryman during the "police action" in Korea.
Probably an underrated piece of film by Samuel Fuller. Extremely brilliant and poignant with some intelligent and cool dialogue. It was extremely gratifying to see the side of the story of Americans as a whole and not just the politicians and so on. The message is more towards th...( read more)
Holy f*ck! Now this is a Sam Fuller movie in all it's glory. Yeah, I could be vulgar, but this really makes me want to re-review his other films. This movie actually slightly feels like an even more bad-ass The Big Red One.
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