This movie is a fantastic movie. Everything about it in my opinion was top notch from the acting to the directing. I know Mr. Garfield was blacklisted in the 1950's but the majority of his other films are on video if not DVD. That being the case,why isn't this one? A friend recorded it off of TCM for me but to have it on DVD would be great. For special features they could have say a Marine historian talk about the battle and if Mr. Schmid's wife or son are still alive they could be interviewed as well. Anyway this is a great movie and I highly recommend it.If it ever is put out hopefully it won't be colorized. Colorizing it would in my opinion just ruin the whole effect of the film. The battle scene was quite realistic as far as a 1945,film would go. Mr. Garfield did a superb job of portraying Mr. Schmid. Some actors might have been tempted to overact the part of Mr.Schmid's disability but I feel he got it just right. I sincerely hope they come out with this movie on DVD someday as a tribute to the courage of Al Schmid and all the other marines who sacrificed so much for us in World War Two.

Also known in a different form as "House of Exorcism," this messy
little film takes itself so seriously as to kill any entertainment value
whatsoever.
The spare plot involves European tourist Elke Sommer who has a
chance run in with Telly Savalas, who looks just like the devil she
saw on a fresco in the square. Sommer is given a ride to a
mysterious house in the country, where Savalas happens to be
butler. There, she is mistaken for a long dead woman, and the real
soap opera theatrics begin. The house's blind matriarch's
husband had an affair with the dead woman, who was the
matriarch's son's fiancee. The couple who gave Sommer the ride?
Well, the woman is giving the chauffeur, uh, "back seat driving
lessons," and the husband knows and does not care. Eventually,
most of the cast is killed, Sommer is drugged and raped,
escapes, and the viewer is taken to a climax on board an empty
airplane...which must have resembled the empty theaters this
thing played in.
The alternate version of this, "House of Exorcism," has scenes
added involving a priest.
The VHS copy of this, from Elite Entertainment, is crystal clear and
letterboxed. There are "extras" after the end credits; deleted sex
and gore scenes.
Mario Bava's direction is fast and furious, but his screenplay is
awful. There are half baked ideas, abandoned plotlines, and
stunning conveniences that do nothing more than propel this thing
in some sort of forward direction. You have life like dummies for
practice funerals, the blind matriarch does not act all that blind,
and Savalas is given the same lollipops he had in "Kojak," (who
haunts ya, baby?).
The project seems like they had two name stars, then wrote the
script quickly, something that happens in Hollywood on a daily
occurrence now. Savalas looks completely lost, delivering his
lines haltingly, and wishing his character had not died in "The Dirty
Dozen." Sommer runs around and screams and gasps a lot, but
her character is a blank, I use the term "character" loosely. The
only thing we know about her is her name.
This is a real weird film, and your reaction to it might depend on
how heavily you are into Eurohorror, and Kojak. I for one cannot
recomment "Lisa and the Devil."
This is unrated, and including all the extras at the end of the VHS
copy, contains strong physical violence, sexual violence, strong
gore, strong female nudity, male nudity, sexual content, and adult
situations