Hell Is for Heroes
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: June 26, 1962 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
76
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Generally favorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
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6
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0
Negative:
0
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90
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
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
80
The New York TimesA.H. Weiler
An unusually well-made film. Read full review
75
TV Guide MagazineStaff (Not Credited)
A film with uncomfortable things to say about the nature of heroism--and one to see for that reason. Read full review
75
USA TodayMike 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]
75
Chicago ReaderDave 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
70
VarietyStaff (Not Credited)
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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