Samuel Fuller-The Steel Helmet [Interviews to Tarantino, Scorsese, Jarmusch]

Quentin Tarantino, Michael Scorsese and Jim Jarmusch talk about "The Steel Helmet" (1951) by Samuel Fuller.
Taken from the documentary "The Typewriter, the Rifle & the Movie Camera" (1996)



The Steel Helmet
(from Wikipedia)
(The Steel Helmet (1951) is a war film directed by Samuel Fuller and produced by Lippert Studios during the Korean War. It was the first film about that anti-communist war, and the first of several war films by producer-director-writer Fuller.

Plot: The film features Gene Evans as "Zack", a hardened infantry sergeant. When his entire company is killed by the North Korean communist enemy, Sgt. Zack is made prisoner. The film's first close up is of Zack's helmet, lying in a ditch, hiding from a North Korean sniper. Rescued by South Korean orphan "Short Round" (William Chun), the cynical Sgt. Zack is bribed into leading a ragtag group of American soldiers, who likewise were separated from their units. Commandeering an abandoned Buddhist temple, Zack establishes an observation post, awaiting the enemy's next move.