Hell Is for Heroes
1962 · directed by Don Siegel
- Rating
- 73/100
- Hit
- no
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.
Hell Is for Heroes (1962), directed by Don Siegel, rates 73/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Steve McQueen
- Bobby Darin
- Fess Parker
- Harry Guardino
- James Coburn
- Mike Kellin
- Joseph Hoover
- Bill Mullikin
- L.Q. Jones
- Michele Montau
Crew
- Harold Lipstein — Director of Photography
- Howard A. Smith — Editor
- Leonard Rosenman — Original Music Composer
- Richard Carr — Screenplay
- Robert Pirosh — Screenplay
More from Don Siegel
- Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) — 83/100 · hit
- Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954) — 82/100 · hit
- Dirty Harry (1971) — 81/100 · hit
- Escape from Alcatraz (1979) — 80/100 · hit
- The Lineup (1958) — 78/100
- The Shootist (1976) — 76/100
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