Overview - Hell Is for Heroes

Overview

World War II drama where the action centers around a single maneuver by a squad of GIs in retaliation against the force of the German Siegfried line. Reese joins a group of weary GIs unexpectedly ordered back into the line when on their way to a rest area. While most of the men withdraw from their positions facing a German pillbox at the far side of a mine-field, half a dozen men are left to protect a wide front. By various ruses, they manage to convince the Germans that a large force is still holding the position. Then Reese leads two of the men in an unauthorized and unsuccessful attack on the pillbox, in which the other two are killed; and when the main platoon returns, he is threatened with court-martial. Rather that face the disgrace, and in an attempt to show he was right, he makes a one-man attack on the pillbox.

Cast

• Name: Steve McQueen

  Character: Pvt. John Reese

  Popularity: 2.3799

  

• Name: Bobby Darin

  Character: Pvt. Dave 'J.J.' Corby

  Popularity: 1.0762

  

• Name: Fess Parker

  Character: Sgt. Bill Pike

  Popularity: 1.1947

  

• Name: Harry Guardino

  Character: Sgt. Jim Larkin

  Popularity: 1.6683

  

• Name: James Coburn

  Character: Cpl. Frank Henshaw

  Popularity: 3.2712

  

• Name: Mike Kellin

  Character: Pvt. Stan Kolinsky

  Popularity: 0.9584

  

• Name: Joseph Hoover

  Character: Capt. Roger Loomis

  Popularity: 0.4416

  

• Name: Bill Mullikin

  Character: Pvt. Joe Cumberly

  Popularity: 0.3795