{"id":18863,"date":"2026-08-07T21:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18863"},"modified":"2026-08-06T21:41:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T01:41:40","slug":"the-steel-helmet-1951-samuel-fuller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18863","title":{"rendered":"The Steel Helmet (1951, Samuel Fuller)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fuller&#8217;s first great war movie.  Fellow WWII vet Gene Evans plays a cigar-chompin&#8217; slang-throwin&#8217; tough guy, picking up a South Korean kid and a stray medic before linking up with a troop with an undercooked commanding officer.  The men die off one at a time to traps and snipers and spies, then they die all at once during an all-out shooting battle at the temple where they&#8217;re camping.<\/p>\n<p><em>Medic James Edwards is resourceful:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/helmet1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Our tough guy, through the clearing smoke:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/helmet2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Survivors:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/helmet3.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fuller&#8217;s first great war movie. Fellow WWII vet Gene Evans plays a cigar-chompin&#8217; slang-throwin&#8217; tough guy, picking up a South Korean kid and a stray medic before linking up with a troop with an undercooked commanding officer. The men die off one at a time to traps and snipers and spies, then they die all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[342,2870,112],"class_list":["post-18863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-korean-war","tag-samuel-fuller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18894,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18863\/revisions\/18894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}