St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1951-02-02


sergeant, the survivor a detail ambushed
LAM massacared by the Reds makes
Nall Rssen with little South Korean orphan The two
~ Edwards young medic, also the
his platoon The three meet with awful lot of
films the butt jokes about "sODaywOnde"
the loot wander around state of
comes to recalling who gives the orders.
What happens there s o. 10
suspense ah IN most pictures Oh TINS type army sghh corps are
inserted to make for the lack of AEc" budget the part
Messrs Fuller and There brief glimpse
Signal Corps stin photo intruding.
Kate Cameron top reviewer for the New York Daily
who commands reading audience Of approximately 100000
people, respects The Helmet" a very
peculiar picture. Others follows the
s something 10 Independence
pecuaIes this reviewer
the picture would undoubtedly big Russia Commu
by long presented
admirable light There holding him his fellows
at home n hero"
Certainly Holly
wood tradition for films which invariably present American
Gs dyaced but heroic wseacng dying briefly CALAMITY
usually with a minimum Of pain.
Maybe have had much of this hero" stuff the
nasty soldering nasty
not paatabe fare for Americans sitting in the comfortable
darkness of motion picture theatres
There a dispatch from in one Of the New
papers recently a young American Just a
sobbing to eight
yeaod girl Of the North Korean Reds who passing as ref
gee by "nquIdate"
buddies. his buddes
his life only by killing the small girl There's nothing heroic
about that.
Kate Cameron continued her review the group under
observation the lieutenant in charge of the detail is green officer
his constantly being
insuted who falls with the group
own detail had been wiped out The other soldiers are either weak or
kids who it nmaed fighting because they
the In other words they presented mercenaes
touchy about this business
portrayed weddings" did
film the Is tired
and trying do the best their ability
supposed
what you're paid do and making fighting "a business
fight presenting the whole group paid
mercenaries, the statement is misleading, think.
from the review: THE medical corporal
Negro Sgt a NIsei soldier only
soldiers in the outfit and they sneered by the Chinese
fighting country
citizens Also, Buddhist destroyed
take shelter there"
Edwards, Corporal Thompson Loo
Sgt Tanaa certainly don't to be the decent
soldiers the outfit Edwards role calls for minimum of dialogue
certainly like he did
think Loo Tanaka yacyacs too much and presented
just little bit too cute
plot temple destroyed because
sheltered there slightest
of whether Koreans temples when the lurking
within, Cameron has that point.
Now let's take look concealed propaganda Steel Helmet
propaganda charged being
One of the most unfortunate aspects of this film is the
showing coldbooded shooting
by lack by Evans lack shoots the officer
after nper has killed the little South Korean orphan befnded
Is
Hkeabe sympathetic picture cap
tured officer at the loyalty of the little boy for his G. friend
the blows his top and blasts the whom he has
bring back unframed
can 81 eas their
and slaughter prisoners will be dplOred
picture country.
procedures attending
Soviet cOuntres-and 1t probably will be.
Another The captured major obnoxious
Edwards that
bus? Edwards qualifying
the sections Of the He replies that 150
he'll able middle
odd he'll probably
the You rush things Edwards
effect.
When the major up
Japanese Americans in prison America during
World War H. Loo admits such the He also brings
combat record of the And Nse fighters
concludes that although Americans divided
times when they attacked from without they stick together
In early the picture Edwards tells
studied surgery under the c. sergeant qups:
shop" possible
Negroes allowed study medical
u Or could be just of those cracks socaed
films lightly busted with
See The Steel Helmet and Judge for yourself
The Steel Helmet film that be evaluated
the theatre home
npups Think line situation
mind Think picture
theatre and then think seeing
subitles theatre behind the
is country.
propaganda deliberately trying
propaganda?
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