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Budget. $104,000 [ 2][ 3] Box office. over $2 million [ 3] The Steel Helmet is a 1951 American war film directed, written, and produced by Samuel Fuller during the Korean War. The cast stars Gene Evans, Robert Hutton, Steve Brodie, James Edwards, and Richard Loo. It was the first American film about the war and the first of several war films by ...
Evans appeared in numerous films produced, directed, and written by Samuel Fuller. In his memoir, A Third Face, Fuller described meeting Evans when casting his Korean War film The Steel Helmet (1950). Fuller threw an M1 Garand rifle at Evans, who caught it and inspected it as a soldier would have done. Evans had been a United States Army ...
Apr 3, 1998 · Gene Evans, character actor best known for his roles as director Samuel Fuller’s quintessential tough guy, beginning in “The Steel Helmet,” has died. He was 75. Evans, most commonly cast as ...
Sep 14, 2009 · The Steel Helmet (1951 USA 84 mins) Prod Co: Deputy Corp/Lippert Productions Prod, Dir, Scr: Samuel Fuller Phot Ernest W. Miller Ed: Philip Cahn Art Dir: Theobold Holsopple Mus: Paul Dunlap. Cast: Gene Evans, Robert Hutton, Richard Loo, Steve Brodie, James Edwards, William Chun, Sid Melton, Harold Fong. Shot on location in Griffith Park over ...
The Steel Helmet: Directed by Samuel Fuller. With Robert Hutton, Steve Brodie, James Edwards, Richard Loo. A ragtag group of American stragglers battles against superior Communist troops in an abandoned Buddhist temple during the Korean War.
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- Action, Drama, War
- Samuel Fuller
- 1951-02-02
He's Gene Evans, playing Sgt Zack, and we meet him pretty quickly in a very neat way indeed. The credits roll over a steel helmet, sitting behind them with only a bullet hole to distinguish it. In a very neat move, the moment the credits finish, the soldier wearing it hauls himself over a ridge and past a number of his dead colleagues.
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May 1, 2012 · Like all his work, it reflects Andrew Sarris’s cogent assessment of the director as an “authentic American primitive.” In The Steel Helmet, Gene Evans seems to be the embodiment of Fullerian crudeness, lacking in common social grace. Although the actor was still in his twenties, he seems world-weary and cynical way beyond his years.
