Saturday, November 25, 2023

Hell is for heroes (1962) - little known war movie directed by Don Siegel, starring Steve McQueen, James Coburn, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker and Harry Guardino

Rating 6.9/10
Runtime: 94 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Don Siegel
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056062/

Cast

Steve McQueen ... Pvt. John Reese
Bobby Darin ... Pvt. Dave Corby
Fess Parker ... Sgt. Bill Pike
Harry Guardino ... Sgt. Jim Larkin
James Coburn ... Cpl. Frank Henshaw
Bob Newhart ... Pvt. James Driscoll
Nick Adams ... Homer Janeczek

Description: 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. Private John 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 than 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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Download link (torrent file):

https://fastupload.io/YCy6RddHsLRyrbn/file


Video and audio information:

Video : 2.04 GB, 3253 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 1024x554 (1.85:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 106/124 (main/commentary), 164/192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2/2 channels, 0x55 = AAC/AC3, CBR/VBR


Subtitles (English (including hearing imaired), Arabian, Bulgarian, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, Spanish (Latin America), French, Finnish, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Croatian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Dutch, Portuguese-Brazilian, Polish, Romanian, Slovenian, Serbian, Swedish, Turkish closed captions embedded, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Greek, Danish, Norwegian, Dutch, Portuguese, Portuguese-Brazilian, Swedish, Icelandic, Hebrew, Norwegian, Czech, Polish, Hungarian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Croatian) posters and screenshots included


Double audio track information

This movie contains two audio tracks, one is original English and other is commentary by filmmaker Steve Mitchell and classic cinema historian Steven Jay Rubin. You can use VLC Player to easily choose between any of audio tracks (Audio => Audio track and switch to main audio track on Track 1, additional track on Track 2)

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