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Bookmark this pageThe Steel Bayonet (1957)
Director: Michael Carreras
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From Time Out Film Guide
No-budget British war movie (avoid confusion with Sam Fuller's The Steel Helmet or Fixed Bayonets) directed by Michael Carreras, a Hammer studios' mainstay. Salisbury Plain stands in for Tunis, 1943, as a group of infantrymen hold a farmhouse dangerously close to enemy lines. Despite an honourable effort in the direction of psychological grittiness, the picture never really exerts much grip.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: Michael Carreras
Producer: Michael Carreras
Cast: Leo Genn, Kieron Moore, Michael Medwin, Robert Brown, Michael Ripper full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 85 mins
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