Steel Helmet, The
Criterion (1951)
Drama, War
In Collection
#12258
0*
Seen ItYes
715515025522
IMDB   7.6
4 hr 22 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Vincent Price
John Ireland
Barbara Britton
Ellen Drew
Preston Foster
Gene Evans Sgt. Zack
Robert Hutton Pvt. Bronte
Steve Brodie Lt. Driscoll
Vladimir Sokoloff
James Edwards Cpl. Thompson
Richard Loo Sgt. Tanaka
Sid Melton Joe
Richard Monahan Pvt. Baldy
William Chun Short Round
Harold Fong The Red
Neyle Morrow First GI
Samuel Fuller
Reed Hadley
Tom Tyler
Tommy Noonan
Lynn Stalmaster Teniente
Director
Samuel Fuller
Producer Samuel Fuller
Carl K. Hittleman
William A. Berke
Writer Samuel Fuller
Cinematography Ernest Miller
Musician Philip CAHN

His films have been called raw, outrageous, sensational, and daring. In four decades of directing, Samuel Fuller created a legendarily idiosyncratic oeuvre, examining U.S. history and mythmaking in westerns, film noirs, and war epics. And characteristically, it all began with a bang: after printing the legend with the elegant B-pictures I Shot Jesse James and The Baron Of Arizona, he got himself into hot water with the FBI on The Steel Helmet, the first American movie to portray the Korean War. These three independent films showed off Fuller's genre diversity, gutter wit, and subversive force, and pointed the way to a controversial career in studio moviemaking.

I Shot Jesse James
Fuller's directorial debut is a psychological western, excavating, with pathos and humor, the tale of Robert Ford, the member of Jesse James's gang who shot the famed outlaw in the back.

The Baron Of Arizona
A devilishly witty Vincent Price plays a nineteenth-century con man who sets out to commit the most epic swindle in U.S. history: to claim himself as the rightful inheritor of Arizona.

The Steel Helmet
With its low budget and high ambitions, Fuller's snarling Korean War film, an examination of race relations as well as a visceral plunge into battle, remains one of the director's most discussed and admired works.
Edition Details
Edition The Baron of Arizona / I Shot Jesse James / The Steel Helmet
Distributor Eclipse
Release Date 8/14/2007
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio Standard 1.33:1 B&W
Subtitles Dutch
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 3

Features
Disc 01 Features Not Specified.