Hell Is for Heroes

Name: Hell Is for Heroes
Genre: Drama, War
Released: June 26, 1962
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 76
Cast: Bob Newhart, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, James Coburn

1962

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Paramount Pictures | Release Date: June 26, 1962 | Approved

Starring: Bob Newhart, Bobby Darin, Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, James Coburn, Mike Kellin, Nick Adams, Simon Prescott, Stephen Ferry, Steve McQueen

Summary: Small squad must hold off German attack.

Director: Don Siegel

Genre(s): Drama, War

Rating: Approved

Runtime: 90 min

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A war film is a war film is a war film... except that Siegel, brought into the project at the last moment when Steve McQueen refused to work with the scheduled director, toughened the standard war-is-hell screenplay into an extraordinary study of psychopathology. Read full review

A.H. Weiler

An unusually well-made film. Read full review

Dave Kehr

Siegel avoids the cliches of the butterflies-and-brotherhood school (cf All Quiet on the Western Front), opting instead for a study of the brutalizing power of sanctioned violence. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

A film with uncomfortable things to say about the nature of heroism--and one to see for that reason. Read full review

Mike Clark

Thanks in part to McQueen, you can almost mention this in the same breath with director Don Siegel's best. [30 Mar 1990, p.3D]

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Producer Henry Blanke has framed and mounted a gripping, fast-paced, hard-hitting dramatic portrait of an interesting World War II battlefield incident. But there are occasional duds in the film's dramatic arsenal. Read full review

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