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6.1/10   128 votes
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Director:
Writer:
Franklin Coen (writer)
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Release Date:
20 May 1953 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
You'll Never Love So Hard In Your Life... as these hard-hitting guys hit the dirt... and come up fighting!
Plot:
During the Korean War Lt. Sam Pryor volunteers his platoon to escort Greek troops to perform a reconnaissance mission behind Communist lines... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won Golden Globe. more
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Tight Outfit more (4 total)

Cast

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Victor Mature ... Lt. Sam Pryor
Alexander Scourby ... Lt. Niklas

Lee Marvin ... Cpl. Bowman
Richard Egan ... Sgt. Johnson
Nick Dennis ... Cpl. Marakis
Roy Roberts ... Sgt. Chuck Anderson
Alvy Moore ... Pvt. 'Stoney' Stone
Russell Evans ... Pvt. Taylor
Henry Kulky ... Sgt. 'Smitty' Smitkowsky
Gregg Martell ... Pvt. Ryan
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Additional Details

Runtime:
82 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #16116) | Sweden:15

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Maj. Sauer: Where's the sugar? Everytime I retake this hut I can't find the sugar. I've been in and out of here so many times, I'm beginning to feel like a yo-yo. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in MASH (1970) more

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3 out of 3 people found the following review useful.
Tight Outfit, 21 April 2006
6/10
Author: jldmp1 (jldmp1@aol.com) from United States

This packs a lot of punch for its tight construction.

We go straight to war in the opening shot: the platoon retreats over the makeshift bridge, the camera pulls back on the corps' sign; it jiggles with the concussions from the explosions in the river, then pans over to the embankment -- a complicated shot that says a great deal, but does it economically. The movie ends economically, too, with the battle won, and the two commanders smiling at the results, cuing our response.

I suspect this movie was a template for several modern war features, yet strangely this has gone somewhat overlooked; perhaps, simply because Korea is not an over-filmed war, and we think of it mostly on "MASH"'s terms.

A guerrilla attack on a tank uses an explosive charge under a tank tread -- later used in "The Terminator". A depot is attacked by using distractions, then an infantry charge; the actors' positioning, movements and the camera angles -- the very visual vocabulary of that scene -- are elements that would later appear in "Predator".

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