![]() ![]() ![]() Once such film is Hell is for Heroes, a 1962 film from Don Siegel that takes advantage of its small budget to do some very interesting things with the War film. Like I said, these films are very much a product of the era and can therefore never be fully recreated, but they are a lot of fun and hold up very well. The films were very much a product of the era as just enough cynicism had crept in to render the more earnest older films like Sergeant York obsolete but the genre was still largely working from a pre-Vietnam War mindset, even as the actual Vietnam War was raging during this time. You know the film, the movies that focus on being cool and feature detached anti-heroes that are focused on fighting for something other than defending democracy- stuff like The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, Where Eagles Dare, and Kelly’s Heroes. ![]() Its fall was largely the result of forces beyond film, but I really do dig this particular class of War films that arose in the 1960s and died in the 1970s, especially outside of Italy. ![]()
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