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Hell Is for Heroes

This is the living hell for heroes

  • Movie
  • 1962
  • NR
  • 1h 30m

Directed by Don Siegel

6.5

TMDB audience rating
6.5 out of 10 from 140 votes

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Overview

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.

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Cast and crew

  • Steve McQueen

    Steve McQueenPvt. John Reese

  • Bobby Darin

    Bobby DarinPvt. Dave 'J.J.' Corby

  • Fess Parker

    Fess ParkerSgt. Bill Pike

  • Harry Guardino

    Harry GuardinoSgt. Jim Larkin

  • James Coburn

    James CoburnCpl. Frank Henshaw

  • Mike Kellin

    Mike KellinPvt. Stan Kolinsky

  • Joseph HooverCapt. Roger Loomis

  • Bill Mullikin

    Bill MullikinPvt. Joe Cumberly

  • L.Q. Jones

    L.Q. JonesSupply Sgt. Frazer

  • Michele Montau

    Michele MontauMonique Ouidel

  • Don Haggerty

    Don HaggertyCapt. Mace

  • Nick Adams

    Nick AdamsHomer Janeczek

  • Bob Newhart

    Bob NewhartPvt. James E. Driscoll

  • Stephen FerrySgt. Morgan

  • Simon Prescott

    Simon PrescottThomas

  • Robert Phillips

    Robert PhillipsJeep driver

  • Richard AdamsSergeant (uncredited)

  • Guy WaySergeant (uncredited)

Director
Don Siegel
Writer
Robert Pirosh and Richard Carr
Music
Leonard Rosenman
Cinematography
Harold Lipstein