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Director:
Writers:
John Brophy (novel)
Samuel Fuller (writer)
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Release Date:
December 1951 (USA) more
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Plot:
The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Richard Basehart ... Cpl. Denno
Gene Evans ... Sgt. Rock
Michael O'Shea ... Sgt. Lonergan
Richard Hylton ... Medic John Wheeler
Craig Hill ... Lt. Gibbs
Skip Homeier ... Whitey
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Runtime:
92 min
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Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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The technical advisor, Captain Raymond Harvey, US Army, was awarded the Distinguish Service Cross (second only to the Medal of Honor), two Silver Stars and two Purple Hearts, during WW II and won the Medal of Honor in the Korean War. While working on this film he became close friends with the director Samuel Fuller, more
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Crew or equipment visible: When Sgt Rock is running out the cave and down the hill to stab the Red soldier, the shadow of the camera crane following him can be seen on the snow. more
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chain of command, 29 October 2009
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Author: mgrindberg from Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico

This is a really interesting movie to watch on themes of responsibility and its inevitability. The person who wants it the least is the person who ultimately gets it and, by virtue partly of his reluctance, turns out to be the best suited for the job at hand. And in this film that job is to be the leader of a rear guard action to dissuade the North Koreans from closing in on a withdrawing regiment. The chain goes from the regimental colonel, who we see as the film opens, a "one of the guys" type of guy with a wad of chewing tobacco, clustered with some other men in a tent, and then to a young lieutenant who's company is chosen to lead the rear guard action, and the interesting GI's in the company played by some familiar faces, and is whittled down to a young corporal who would never want the responsibility but exceeds his own limitations and ultimately wins his own self respect. It's been done before, but this film does it very well. The lines are quite well written, and Lucien Ballard, one of the greats, the cinematographer. Put under the direction, production, and writing of rebel Sam Fuller, and you get one tough "little" (as in cut to the chase) action war film.

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