Hell Is for Heroes

Hell Is for Heroes

Released on
War
Runtime
90 mins
(119 votes)

World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a rest area. While most of the men withdraw from their positions facing a German pillbox at the far side of a mine-field, half a dozen men are left to protect a wide front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a large force is still holding the position. Then Reese leads two of the men in an unauthorized and unsuccessful attack on the pillbox, in which the other two are killed; and when the main platoon returns, he is threatened with court-martial. Rather that face the disgrace, and in an attempt to show he was right, he makes a one-man attack on the pillbox.

Cast

  • Steve McQueen
  • Bobby Darin
  • Fess Parker
  • Harry Guardino
  • James Coburn
  • Mike Kellin
  • Joseph Hoover
  • Bill Mullikin
  • L.Q. Jones
  • Michele Montau
  • Don Haggerty
  • Nick Adams
  • Bob Newhart
  • Stephen Ferry
  • Simon Prescott
  • Robert Phillips
  • Richard Adams
  • Guy Way
  • Fred Cavens
  • Louis J. Gasnier
  • Chuck Hicks
  • Tipp McClure
  • Fred Ross
  • Glenn Stensel
  • James Turley

Director

  • Don Siegel

Producers

  • Henry Blanke

Screenwriter

  • Robert Pirosh
  • Richard Carr

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