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7.6/10   1,558 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Norman Brooks (play)
James Poe (screenplay)
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Release Date:
17 October 1956 (USA) more
Genre:
Tagline:
The Story of the "Fragile Fox" Company! more
Plot:
During the closing days of WWII, a National Guard Infantry Company is assigned the task of setting up artillery observation posts in a strategic area... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win & 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
Eddie Albert Dies at 99
 (From IMDb News. 28 May 2005)

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One of the best more (51 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jack Palance ... Lt. Joe Costa, Fox Co.
Eddie Albert ... Capt. Erskine Cooney, CO, Fox Co.

Lee Marvin ... Lt. Col. Clyde Bartlett, CO, White Battalion
Robert Strauss ... Pfc. Bernstein
Richard Jaeckel ... Pvt. Snowden

Buddy Ebsen ... Sfc. Tolliver, Fox Co.
Jon Shepodd ... Cpl. John Jackson, Fox Co. (communications)
Peter van Eyck ... SS Captain (as Peter Van Eyck)
James Goodwin ... Pfc. Ricks (as Jimmy Goodwin)
Steven Geray ... Otto, German NCO
Jud Taylor ... Pvt. Jacob R. Abramowitz (radioman) (as Judson Taylor)
Louis Mercier ... Brouise (French blacksmith)
Henry Rowland ... German with Binoculars
Holly Bane ... Soldier with binoculars (as Mike Ragan)
Ron McNeil ... Pfc. Jones
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Attack! (USA) (alternative spelling)
Command Attack (USA) (working title)
The Fragile Fox (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
107 min
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Although he plays a coward in this film, in real life Eddie Albert, who served in WW II, was a war hero, in one engagement having braved heavy enemy fire to rescue 70 wounded Marines. more
Goofs:
Factual errors: Throughout the picture, German infantrymen use what seems to be some variation of the water-cooled Browning 30-caliber machine gun, which was a U.S. weapon. Also, the German tanks don't resemble any Panzers in use during World War II. more
Quotes:
Sfc. Tolliver, Fox Co.: [refusing a drink] Captain, down around where I come from we dearly love our whiskey. But we don't drink with another man unless we respect him. more

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10 out of 14 people found the following review useful.
One of the best, 21 June 2000
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One of the best war films ever made, this gritty little-known gem features Jack Palance in perhaps his best role. The dynamics of a small infantry unit just about at the end of its tether in WWII Europe are portrayed extremely realistically. Eddie Albert, Lee Marvin, and Buddy Ebsen give great supporting performances.

The film is in B&W and has all the dirt and sweatiness and fear that is characteristic of really good work done in the 1950's.

No pretty boys here

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