Release Date

26 Jun, 1962

Runtime

01:30: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

This is the living hell for heroes

World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a rest area. While most of the men withdraw from their positions facing a German pillbox at the far side of a mine-field, half a dozen men are left to protect a wide front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a large force is still holding the position. Then Reese leads two of the men in an unauthorized and unsuccessful attack on the pillbox, in which the other two are killed; and when the main platoon returns, he is threatened with court-martial. Rather that face the disgrace, and in an attempt to show he was right, he makes a one-man attack on the pillbox.

Original Title

Hell Is for Heroes

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Actors

Steve McQueen

Bobby Darin

Fess Parker

Harry Guardino

James Coburn

Mike Kellin

Joseph Hoover

Bill Mullikin

L.Q. Jones

Michele Montau

Don Haggerty

Nick Adams

Bob Newhart

Stephen Ferry

Simon Prescott

Robert Phillips

Richard Adams

Guy Way

Fred Cavens

Louis J. Gasnier

Chuck Hicks

Crew

Don Siegel

Robert Pirosh

Henry Blanke

Robert R. Benton

Hal Pereira

Sam Comer

Leonard Rosenman

John P. Fulton

Howard A. Smith

Howard Richmond

Harold Lipstein

Loren Janes

Art Say

William McGarry