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Fixed Bayonets

starring: Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O'Shea, Richard Hylton, Craig Hill
directed by: Samuel Fuller

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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543432838
Format: Color, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Running Time: 92 minutes
Sales Rank: 10688
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1951-12



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Product Description:
The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsiblity.System Requirements:Run Time: 92 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 024543432838 Manufacturer No: 2243283

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Not your typical star-studded or star-spangled war film, cult-fave director Samuel Fuller's Fixed Bayonets is a viscerally thrilling Korean War drama of one platoon's trial, and one corporal's baptism, under fire. Morale is high but the ammo is low for an American division hunkered down in the mountains of Korea. Certain massacre awaits if they retreat. To give '15,000 men a break,' 48 'of our toughest combat men' are selected to stay behind and trick the 'commies' into thinking the entire division is in place while the others escape safely across a river. Fixed Bayonets is raw and brutal in the best Fuller tradition. The backgrounds are obvious fakes, and the platoon members sport the usual war movie nicknames like Whitey, Rock, Jonesy, and 'Mr. Belvedere' (he's the resident know-it-all). But all else has the authentic ring of reportage, as in a powerful scene when the men cluster together to rub their feet to ward off frostbite. Richard Basehart stars as Denno, who can 'take an order, but can't give one' until his three superiors are knocked off one by one, leaving him in command. This rueful exchange--'They told me this was going to be a police action.' 'Why didn't they send the cops?'--is as close as Fuller gets to geopolitics. For war-movie buffs, he does deliver pounding and tense action sequences. In one harrowing scene, a medic must navigate a minefield to try and rescue a wounded sergeant and retrieve the only map to the field.. But he is resolutely unsentimental and more interested in the ravaged, human face of war. These are faces you will not soon forget (one of them, reportedly, belongs to James Dean, but this film is so gripping, one is hard-pressed to make the effort to try to spot him). --Donald Liebenson



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Very good movie
This was a very good movie showing the diffrent characters and how they handled themselves. if you ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Good, but not as gritty as "The Steel Helmet"
After seeing Sam Fuller's "Steel Helmet" on one of the classic channels (AMC or TCM), I bought this ... Read More


Rating: 3 out of 5 stars - We spend too much time in Richard Basehart's head
An okay movie that felt more like the original made for TV dramas of the late 1950s than a full blown ... Read More


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Good war film
Low budget war film with great script and performances. A classic film well worth watching.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - SAMUEL FULLER, OPUS 4
***1/2 1951. Based on a novel by John Brophy, FIXED BAYONETS! was written and directed by Samuel Fuller. ... Read More

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