Hell Is For Heroes
starring: Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, James Coburn
directed by: Don Siegel
directed by: Don Siegel
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Exhausted gls are ordered to hold part of the siegfried line guarded by a pillbox.Studio: Paramount Home VideoRelease Date: 05/23/2006Starring: Steve Mcqueen Nick AdamsRun time: 90 minutesRating: NrDirector: Don Siegel
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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
Exhausted gls are ordered to hold part of the siegfried line guarded by a pillbox.Studio: Paramount Home VideoRelease Date: 05/23/2006Starring: Steve Mcqueen Nick AdamsRun time: 90 minutesRating: NrDirector: Don Siegel
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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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Rating: - Hell is for Heros
I am a fan of Steve McQueen and enjoy WWII movies.So, I figured I couldn't miss watching the movie.Enjoyed it very much, even if it was sad.Also, it was nice to have some of my other favorite actors in it, such as James Coburn, Fess Parker and Bob Newhart...who...by the way...I thought did a great job in this movie.
Rating: 
- Pinned in front of a pillbox!
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 ... Read More
Rating: - In Hell There Are No Heroes
HELL IS FOR HEROES is one of the grittiest most realistic films made about war and men at war.This is not a film that glorifies war nor does it serve as a patriotic song of war.Rather director Don Siegel uses black and white in a manner that is more real than if he had used color. The time is late 1944 or early 1945 and the American army is getting ready to storm the Siegfried Line, the final steel curtain protecting Nazi Germany. But the Wehrmacht is far from licked and plans to counterattack.It ... Read More
Rating: 
- Steve the Soldier
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.
Rating: - Realistic war drama
To me this was a more realistic war film than many that were released. It shows the realities and the inhuman horror better than any film other than "Alls Quiet on the Western Front"...
- Hell is for HerosI am a fan of Steve McQueen and enjoy WWII movies.So, I figured I couldn't miss watching the movie.Enjoyed it very much, even if it was sad.Also, it was nice to have some of my other favorite actors in it, such as James Coburn, Fess Parker and Bob Newhart...who...by the way...I thought did a great job in this movie.
- Pinned in front of a pillbox!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 ... Read More
- In Hell There Are No HeroesHELL IS FOR HEROES is one of the grittiest most realistic films made about war and men at war.This is not a film that glorifies war nor does it serve as a patriotic song of war.Rather director Don Siegel uses black and white in a manner that is more real than if he had used color. The time is late 1944 or early 1945 and the American army is getting ready to storm the Siegfried Line, the final steel curtain protecting Nazi Germany. But the Wehrmacht is far from licked and plans to counterattack.It ... Read More
- Steve the SoldierSteve 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.
- Realistic war dramaTo me this was a more realistic war film than many that were released. It shows the realities and the inhuman horror better than any film other than "Alls Quiet on the Western Front"...
