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The Steel Helmet is a 1951 American war film directed, written, and produced by Samuel Fuller during the Korean War. The cast stars Gene Evans, Robert Hutton, Steve Brodie, James Edwards, and Richard Loo. It was the first American film about the war and the first of several war films by Fuller.
The Steel Helmet: Directed by Samuel Fuller. With Robert Hutton, Steve Brodie, James Edwards, Richard Loo. A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War.
Despite its relatively low budget, this portrait of Korean War soldiers dealing with moral and racial identity crises remains one of the director's most gripping, realistic depictions of the blood and guts of war, as well as a reflection of Fuller's irreducible social conscience.
Page 1 of 6, 11 total items. In the early days of the Korean War, gruff U.S. Sgt. Zack (Gene Evans) is retreating to safety after an enemy attack wipes out his unit.
Sgt. Zack, a hard-bitten U.S. Army Infantryman battling Communist North Koreans in the Korean War, is the sole survivor of an enemy attack on his regiment. A bullet hole in Zack's helmet serves as a grim reminder that he narrowly escaped death.
The Steel Helmet marked Samuel Fuller's official arrival as a mighty cinematic force. Despite its relatively low budget, this portrait of Korean War soldiers dealing with moral and racial identity crises remains one of the director's most gripping, realistic depictions of the blood and guts of war, as well as a reflection of Fuller's ...
A hard-bitten, cynical veteran sergeant, the lone survivor of an ambushed patrol, joins up with a South Korean orphan, a black medic, a Japanese-American, a former conscientious objector, and other ragtag stragglers and leads them to an abandoned Buddhist temple.
