The Steel Helmet: Difference between revisions
The Steel Helmet: Difference between revisions - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in Movies, TV and Video Games
The Steel Helmet: Difference between revisions
Throughout the film, US GIs, Sgt. Tanaka ([[Richard Loo]]) and Sgt. Zack ([[Gene Evans]]) carry the [[M1928A1 Thompson]] submachine gun.
Several American soldiers carry [[M1928A1 Thompson]] submachine guns. Sgt. Tanaka ([[Richard Loo]]) and Sgt. Zack ([[Gene Evans]]) each borrow one in one scene to locate and eliminate a pair of North Korean snipers.
[[Image:M1928-A1_T.jpg|thumb|none|400px|M1928A1 Thompson with 30-round magazine and early 'simplified' rear sight that would be adopted for the M1 Thompson - .45 ACP]]
[[Image:M1928-A1_T.jpg|thumb|none|400px|M1928A1 Thompson with 30-round magazine and early 'simplified' rear sight that would be adopted for the M1 Thompson - .45 ACP]]
The Steel Helmet is the 1951 war film that was the first US feature film to portray the Korean War onscreen (the war had only begun a year earlier). This was also the breakout film for writer/director Samuel Fuller, who went on to direct such notable war films as Merrill's Marauders and The Big Red One. The Steel Helmet also marked the feature film acting debut of venerable character actor Gene Evans, who would proceed to have a role in Fuller's next Korean War film Fixed Bayonets! (also released in 1951). The production was also the first (but not the last) to use the Santa Monica Mountains as a stand-in for Korea. The film is a meditation on race, bigotry, tolerance, and morality in wartime.
The following weapons were used in the film The Steel Helmet:
Several American soldiers carry M1928A1 Thompson submachine guns. Sgt. Tanaka (Richard Loo) and Sgt. Zack (Gene Evans) each borrow one in one scene to locate and eliminate a pair of North Korean snipers.
