UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

Executscan Expected more

Stellead Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

LeonLouisRicci Spot the Upcoming Stars is as Good as it Gets in this Standard, Clichéd, Static, and Pretentiously Penned Korean War Flick. The Dialog Tries Mightily to be Poetic and Insightful but is Nothing but Lame, Sophomoric, and Silly.Richard Conte Leads this Band of Stereotypes, who are Introduced in a Prolog with a Jingoistic Melting Pot of American Soldiers Brought Together to Fight the Invading Commies. This is a Typical 1950's Movie About Fighting Men. Made Just a Few Years After the Conflict Ended, Seems to Offer a Forced and Apologetic Tribute to the 50,000 Americans Who Perished in the Stalemate.Peggie Castle is Recruited to Nurse the Wounded and is a Striking Blonde Bombshell that is Somehow Found on the Frontlines Amidst the Action but Never Loses Her Made Up Fifties Style Face and Hairdoo. While Nice to Look At Among the Goofy Grunts, She is Only There for Love (and marriage) Interest for the Soon to be Returning Lieutenant, Have Some Baby Boomers, and Live Happily Ever After.Overall, a Somewhat Bland Movie with One Good Action Sequence and can Only be Recommended for War Movie Completest.

kapelusznik18 ****SPOILERS**** Stuck behind enemy lines Korean War movie with Richard Conte as the happy go lucky without a care in the world Let. Tom Flagler winning the war almost all by himself. It's Let. Flagler who loses his innocence in the war swirling all around him when the love of his life US Army infantry unit Easy Company gets wiped out by a human wave assault of North Korean troops. Up until then noting bothered Let. Flagler thinking the separated from the main battalion Easy Company was safe and out of harms way. It's then that Let.Flagler becomes suicidal and lets his and his men down by getting so depressed that that they can't relay on him with a major North Korean assault on his position is just about to materializer!Up until then Let. Flagler could do nothing wrong in being focus on his mission to get his men together with a British tank crew back across enemy lines. So focused that her didn't even realize that US Army nurse Ann Galloway, Peggie Castle,was just crazy about him and his macho-like attitude towards war as well as everything else. It's the in house armature psychiatrist of his unit Sgt. Vince Gaspari played by a young, age 34, and clean shaven, it's hard to recognize him without his famous mustache, Charles Bronson who gives us in the audience as well as Peggie an insight to Let. Flagler's mine-set. His only love is his company and no one or nothing else and when it was wiped out by the North Koreans he just flipped out!****SPOILERS**** With the North Koreans now ready to charge up the hill and annihilate Let. Flagler and his men as well as nurse Galloway he finally comes to his senses as well as survival instincts and uses, by land line telephone, the entire US Army Air Force and Navy to do them in. It strange to see hundreds if not thousands of North Korean soldiers just march like lemmings to their death as a deadly combination of US jet fighters as well as massive US navel bombardment chops them to pieces! Even the few North Koreans that make it to Lt. Flagler's forward positions are just blasted by the few US as well as British defenders as if they were harmless bowling pins! As for the North Korean soldiers all they had to fight with against the ultra modern US and British military were what looked like turn of the century bolt action rifles that in most case didn't seem to work!

Mark_Marcon Good depiction of the Korean war. Desperate, cut-off UN troops must fight their back to a strategic hill where they hope to be relieved. The action is good with all the elements of the war, a fanatical enemy, little support for UN forces, and freezing winter conditions. Though the love interest may have been unnecessary the film is realistic, especially depicting the plight of civilians and well acted. Surprising that there is no DVD/VHS release as other Korean war films are available. The naval gunfire support using real footage is good though the accuracy achieved somewhat imaginary. The tone of the film is grim and gritty throughout. Reminiscent of "Combat" in look and feel. Highly Recommended.

bluegerm Usually Leonard Maltin and I agree on movies....Not this one. I have seen it perhaps four or five times. An American unit, sitting astride a strategic hilltop, plugging the Main Line of Resistance, is over-run and wiped out. Only a patrol and some stragglers picked up along the way are able to reach the now-undefended hilltop in time.I found this story to ring true....with good characterizations and plot developments. Sure, the enemy is the two-dimensional Yellow Menace....that's standard with fifties-era movies.....but the mix of up-and-coming young actors is in itself worth the time to view this film.A good story, well-acted, worthy of a look. And quite useful to someone trying to get a real look at war in Korea after the conflict settled into a stalemate. I recommend it.