Destinazione Tunisi

Titolo originale: The Steel Bayonet

1957
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1h 25min

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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA small band of British soldiers is sent on a mission to hold up a German advance.A small band of British soldiers is sent on a mission to hold up a German advance.A small band of British soldiers is sent on a mission to hold up a German advance.

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6arthur_tafero

Gritty British WW2 Desert Film - The Steel Bayonet

Leo Genn does an admirable job of holding this film together with the British version of Bataan. It is a film where a unit draws the short straw, and must face the wrath of the German forces which greatly outnumber them, so the Allies can make a concentrated offensive for Tunis. This battle allowed that advance. Tunis was a turning point in the African campaign, and marked the end of the dominance of the Desert Fox, Rommel, the desert genius general of the German Army.

The unlikely unit contains characters that, at first glance, appear as if they could not defend their apartments back in London, much less the flank of the Allied attack. However, looks can be deceiving. These men were as gritty as they came, and did a spectacular job under the circumstances. In a way, the film reminded me of Zulu, when a small group of Army engineers held off superior numbers of Zulu warriors. One of the better British war films.

9richardcannon54

Straight forward, but underrated WW2 film.

Very British in the sense there are no over the top heroics. Just soldiers doing their best.

Well acted and a tight plot. Not the biggest budget and maybe would have been more well known if it had one.

Realistic and action packed without being showy, it's a WW2 film for WW2 film fans. There is some character development, but the film concentrates on the team effort and the responsibility of leadership.

The only real side plot is the inexperienced Michael Medwin playing an inexperienced, by the book officer who needs to learn what soldiering is like in the real world. This emphasises the gritty nature of this underrated gem.

Would recommend.

6boblipton

Fighting The Good Fight In Hampshire

A company of the British Army is ordered to hold off the entire German army in North Africa while Raymond Francis -- called "The General" int he movie, but presumably intended to be Montgomery -- can get the rest of the British Army off their.... well, moving.

With explosions aplenty, what's most interesting about this Hammer film is how it tries, mostly successfully, to maintain the illusion of it taking place in North Africa, while being shot in the moorlands around Aldershot, where the British Army did a lot of training. There's smoke to obscure what's going on in the background. The camera shoots the players mostly in close-ups, or inside of tents, or occasionally at a high enough angle that obstructions hide the background. The clear shots show a very English-looking countryside, but it's not beyond the realm of possibility that there are place that look like that in Tunisia.

I don't believe that the average movie-goer would have noticed those things. It's a pretty good, if generic, war flick.

7planktonrules

Tense, simple and well made.

"The Steel Bayonet" is a very simple but well made WWII action film. In many ways, it's tense and exciting like another British war film, "Zulu" as both are about British soldiers who are badly outnumbered but somehow manage to hold tight and complete their missions.

When the story begins, a badly decimated group of British soldiers in North Africa have finally been pulled off the front lines for rest. However, almost immediately, they are called back into action for a special mission--to secure an observation post and hold it until told to leave. Unfortunately, they are outnumbered badly and their odds of success seem very slim.

This is a simple and well made film. My only complaint is a couple times, grenades land only a few feet from the Brits and after exploding, the men are just fine! Kids, don't try this at home...you will NOT survive! Overall, well worth your time and competently made.

6richardchatten

"Heaven and Earth hold their breath"

This tale of a "bunch of shagged-out expendables" was first of a trio of sweaty war movies made by Hammer. Rather than the flamboyant colour of their horror films Michael Carreras for his debut feature as director presumably deliberately opted for murky black & white.

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In 1958, United Artists released this movie in the U.S. on a double bill with Il forte del massacro (1958).

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Though set in 1943, the military trucks in use are post-WW2 Commer Q4s.

Citazioni
Major Gerard: Look Vernon - you've got very little idea yet what it's all about.
Lt. Vernon: And how am I supposed to learn when you pull rank on me every time I open my mouth?
Major Gerard: Alright, let's forget about rank for a few minutes. Now come on, let's have it: what's the bellyache?
Lt. Vernon: To start with, you made me look a complete fool out there just now. The Sergeant-Major argues when I give him an order and you back him up.
Major Gerard: And isn't it better that you should look a fool than that half a dozen men should get themselves killed? Anything else? You don't like the way the stretcher bearer talks to that wounded German boy.
Lt. Vernon: Who told you that?
Major Gerard: Nobody told me; I saw it in your face.
Lt. Vernon: Have they forgotten the fellow would've shot the lot of us if he could? Yet they call him "chum" and show him snapshots of their wives and kids.
Major Gerard: Yes. Rather fine, isn't it?
Lt. Vernon: Fine?
Major Gerard: Yes, fine! Look, the curious thing about war is that it brings out the worst and the best in us, both at once. The worst is what we're fighting against. And the best is what makes it sometimes almost worthwhile.
Lt. Vernon: I don't get it. There's something here that all these chaps seem to share. Some sort of secret - and I'm on the outside.
Major Gerard: [SIGHS] Look, Vernon: in 24 hours most of those chaps out there will have had it. Perhaps that's the secret.
Lt. Vernon: How do you mean?
Major Gerard: If we don't get an order to withdraw - which is in the highest degree unlikely - the farm in square 2735 will cease to exist by dawn.
Lt. Vernon: Oh. That's us.
Major Gerard: That's us. So you see, what happens outside this particular farmyard isn't very important just now. If I were you, I'd leave it outside. We're all in the same boat. You expect a lot from those chaps out on the hill. They expect the same from you. Work it out for yourself. Don't look to me for a series of beautiful thoughts; any that I ever had went astray a long time ago. I'm moved by men, not ideals. So I'm not asking you to take me as any kind of an example, there are far better. The best of all is yourself. Your own conscience. What you conceive to be the right way to do your job, and stick to it. Nobody can ever ask more of you than that. Now, let's get on with the war, shall we?