Showing posts with label War Movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label War Movie. Show all posts

Counter Attack (1945)

Counter Attack (1945) is a Zoltan Korda pro-Soviet Russia Hollywood-made based on a play wartime action melodrama chamber piece psychological anti-Nazi Russian Front cats and mouse exciting but very dark in terms of general illumination film celebrating the Russian contribution to the victory of Nazism, earned a place in history for the blacklisting of screen writer John Howard Lawson, member of the Hollywood Ten and a guy who really was a Marxist and he never denied it you know, and it stars Paul Muni, big time, and George Macready.

The Steel Helmet (1951)

The Steel Helmet (1951) is a written, produced and made during the Korean war, Korean War military man versus man behind enemy lines race relations and American imperialism critiquing buddy movie war noir made by Samuel Fuller, who created it in Californian parks on the cheap while infuriating military authorities and Uncle Sam by using military footage gained from them in order to express that war is a scam and a tragedy and that not all death was glorious, while racism and Imperialism were both real.

Good old friend of Jean Luc Godard Samuel Fuller made this film in ten days with twenty-five extras who were UCLA students and he used a plywood tank, he shot in a studio using mist, and he shot exteriors in Griffith Park, a large municipal park at the eastern end of the Santa Monica Mountains, in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.