Steel Helmet, The (1951) - (Movie Clip) Okay You Ballerinas!
With Thompson (James Edwards) guarding "Short Round" (William Chun), sergeant Zack (Gene Evans), having rescued the platoon (Steve Brodie, Robert Hutton, Richard Loo, Richard Monahan et al) he just met from snipers in Korea, agrees to escort them to a jungle temple, in Samuel Fuller's The Steel Helmet, 1951.
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Steel Helmet, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) The Korean National Anthem
Awaiting relief in a Buddhist temple in Korea, grizzled sergeant Zack (Gene Evans) saves nervous Driscoll (Steve Brodie) with help from Tankaka (Richard Loo) then reveals a musical trick he's played on his war-orphan sidekick "Short Round" (William Chun), in Samuel Fuller's The Steel Helmet, 1951.
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Steel Helmet, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) They Pray For Korean Heroes
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Steel Helmet, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Bullet In Head, No!
American sergeant Zack (Gene Evans), lone survivor of a Communist attack, is impressed with the language skills of the young South Korean he names "Short Round" (William Chun), but reluctant to take him along, in Sam Fuller's Steel Helmet, 1951.
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Steel Helmet, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Opening, Zack
It gradually becomes clear that there's both a bullet hole in and soldier (Gene Evans) underneath the helmet seen in the opening to writer-producer-director Samuel Fuller's third film, The Steel Helmet, 1951.
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Steel Helmet, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) You Another Re-Tread?
Wounded Zack (Gene Evans) and sidekick "Short Round" (William Chun) encounter medic Thompson (James Edwards) after a lost battle in Korea in Samuel Fuller's Steel Helmet, 1951.