The Steel Helmet

Scripted in a week, shot in 10 days, and released only six months after the start of the Korean War, Sam Fuller's THE STEEL HELMET stands as one of the best films about that war or any war. Dark, violent, and disturbing, this film doesn't celebrate duty, honor, and heroism; it shows men simply trying to survive the madness. Evans, a wounded sergeant whose platoon has been wiped out, is saved from sniper fire by Chun, a South Korean orphan nicknamed "Short Round" (a name adopted by Steven Spielberg for his cute Asian kid in INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM). With the kid tagging along, Evans meets up with a group of raw recruits, and agrees to lead them in excha...