Smalls turns out to have been fast asleep, with a twisted ankle and a shot of morphine, in a shell crater and totally unaware of all the commotion that he caused. Mooney as he together with the rest of his squad are willing to risk their lives to save the life of a fellow GI. Realistic and gritty war drama with Lee Marvin in his first staring role as Sgt. One of the squad members Pvt.Smalls, George Cooper, end up stuck in a bomb crater with his fellow GI's tying to get him back, not knowing if he's either dead or alive, to safety and risking the entire infantry company by doing it. The film "Eight Iron Men" has to do with a US infantry squad pinned down by German machine gun fire in an Italian town during the battle of Mount Cassino. ***SPOILERS*** Based on the little know 1945 Broadway play "A Sound of Hunting". Even without Burt, Eight Iron Men is a well made war drama and should not be missed.
Obviously someone named Harry Cohn didn't want to pay Lancaster's going rate in 1952 to get him for the screen version. Eight Iron Men is based on a flop play on Broadway by Harry Brown which ran only 23 performances in 1945 and featured Sam Levene and a most unknown Burt Lancaster. This was one of the few American made films for the New York City expatriate. Other good performances are from Arthur Franz, Richard Kiley, Nick Dennis, and most of all Bonar Colleano whose career was mostly in the United Kingdom. Lee Marvin with his war experience in the Pacific Theater is a natural as the concerned sergeant. The film shows the tension on all of them. Especially when they get orders to pull back and leave him until replacements come. One of their number is pinned down by a machine gun and it's wearing on the nerves of the other seven. It's a tense situation for this squad in some small town on the Italian front in World War II. Producer Stanley Kramer and Director Edward Dmytryk deliberately chose a cast of unknowns who later did move on to varying degrees of success in the film industry, most notably Lee Marvin, for the cast of Eight Iron Men.
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Overall, it's a nice little low budget film-excelling with realism and full of grit. You can see the best and the worst of some of the guys.but most just wanna protect their tushes and survive the see the end of the war. The net effect of this film is an interesting psychological portrait of ordinary men stretched to the limits. What these men and the rest of the cast have in common is that they weren't yet stars and were excellent at playing average Joes.
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And Richard Kiley later went on to great fame playing many roles on TV and Broadway. Moore was a HUGE child star and member of Our Gang. Colleano is a familiar face and he was an American living in Britain, so whenever a British film wanted a stereotypical American, they'd cast Colleano.
Additional interesting cast members include Bonar Colleano, Dickie Moore and Richard Kiley. He's great.and it's one of his earliest roles. The most interesting cast member is Lee Marvin-playing pretty much the sort of guy he really was during WWII. The rest of the company want to try to rescue him.but they are ordered by the Major not to attempt this, as he doesn't want to lose additional troops. While a group of eight G.I.s are hunkered down in the remnants of an Italian town, one in the group gets pinned down by a German machine gun nest. "Eight Iron Men" is a war film filled with familiar faces-both of actors whose faces you'll recognize but not their names as well as a few folks before they hit stardom.as well as one guy who used to be a very big child star back in the day.
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