Gli avamposti della gloria

I spent the whole of this film trying to work out where I'd seen the actress who played Teresa before but I failed to do so but the end credits revealed all. The title didn't really relate to the fim very much being more suited to a cowboy film, fast draw and all that. An interesting plot very well acted and filmed concerning a small group of US soldiers trying to make it back the their lines. No glamorisation of battle with casualties on both sides. Not many reviews for this film but it is worth watching and trying to spot the later Star Trek regular, the most regular Star Trek character ever.

There's really nothing remarkable about this one. It tries to be a little more realistic after the first scene than many films of the same time period, but it can't help being what it is or when it was produced. Of course, there's the ubiquitous removal of dog tags from dead comrades, making them into unknown soldiers, which is never done in real life, and other typical tropes. The hand grenade-sized explosions are probably a result of a fairly small budget, so that can be overlooked. I didn't understand in the second scene why one soldier was told to choose other soldiers to take to knock out the German observation post instead of the CO just choosing a specific squad like would have happened in real life. Taking the time period into account, I have to score it as about average.