Eight Iron Men is based on a stage play. The story is reminiscent of Saving Private Ryan but that is where the similarities end.
This second world war drama has a soldier, Private Small trapped outside under a hail of machine gun fire. The rest of the infantrymen are trapped inside a house in Italy.
Each time someone goes to rescue the man, they are met with bullets from the machine gun post.
Lee Marvin outshines the rest of the cast as the hard boiled sergeant determined to rescue the soldier. However this is a low budget dreary and talkative war drama that shows up its stage origins as it has little action. The switch between the men hemmed in the bomb butted house and Bonar Colleano's daydream sequence of fantasising about beautiful women is jarring. The ending in anticlimactic.
This second world war drama has a soldier, Private Small trapped outside under a hail of machine gun fire. The rest of the infantrymen are trapped inside a house in Italy.
Each time someone goes to rescue the man, they are met with bullets from the machine gun post.
Lee Marvin outshines the rest of the cast as the hard boiled sergeant determined to rescue the soldier. However this is a low budget dreary and talkative war drama that shows up its stage origins as it has little action. The switch between the men hemmed in the bomb butted house and Bonar Colleano's daydream sequence of fantasising about beautiful women is jarring. The ending in anticlimactic.