The Steel Helmet Full Movie

Russell G 01 Sep 2007

Completely brilliant. So politically incorrect at times and that's what makes it great. Sam Fuller at his best. So incredible, too bad for Short Round though.

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Arin D 08 Feb 2008

Probably an underrated piece of film by Samuel Fuller. Extremely brilliant and poignant with some intelligent and cool dialogue. It was extremely gratifying to see the side of the story of Americans as a whole and not just the politicians and so on. The message is more towards these people plight than any justification and that's what stands out.

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Cindy I 13 Jan 2011

Well-made film set during the Korean Conflict by Samuel Fuller. More character study than exciting battle film, and definiltely anti-war, as most war films really are. A gruff but tired sergeant, who is the sole survivor of the ambush of his platoon by North Korean soldiers, meets up with a ragtag platoon in a similar state and a young South Korean boy. They take temporary refuge in a Buddhist temple (although the giant Buddha statue looked more like Geronimo), where they are attacked by North Koreans. A couple of slightly disturbing scenes, including one where Sgt. Zack tells the Korean boy, called "Short Round", to get a helmet and boots from one of his dead platoon mates, and a black soldier's discussion of racism in America, which he seems to accept with little comment. Odd, but I assume it's a product of the time the film was made. For some reason that I haven't put my finger on yet, I got a strong feel of Kurosawa while watching this film, especially Rashomon and Seven Samurai.

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Eric H 31 Dec 2014

What could have been a flimsy, disposable b-movie in the hands of other, less competent directors, becomes an evocative war tale of grit, fear, loss and redemption in the hands of Sam Fuller. There's no abstract sophistication or sentimental pap though: this is raw and true film-making, unpretentious and stripped of all fat. Director Sam Fuller is a unique beast in the American underground: having worked both as a crime report for NYC newspapers before he enlisted as a soldier in WWII, it comes natural then that the Steel Helmet has the urgency and power of both of his pre-directorial careers. A reporter's sense of story and characters above all and the firsthand experience of a war veteran. True to itself, simple but never simplistic, with respect to the subject matter and without any flag waving, The Steel Helmet is better than it had any right to be. It is still a low-profile (in terms of stars and publicity or lack thereof) b-movie but shot with a conviction and passion few a-list movies can muster.

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Ryan S 10 Feb 2009

Comment realiser un film de guerre en 11 jours, avec un decor reduit au minimum et un casting de 10 personnes max ? Mission impossible sauf pour Fuller. Et s'il n'y avait que ca : le discours antiguerre est virulent, la critique des USA aussi, Gene Evans est grandiose. Fuller a bien retenu les lecons de Hitchcock concernant le suspens, car c'est ce qui plane durant tout le film. Et faire un film pareil en pleine guerre de Coree justement, fallait oser. Fuller l'a fait. Merci a lui.

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