Those familiar with 'The Manchurian Candidate will recognise the late Douglas Henderson as the aptly named Sgt Sweatish, in a movie that like the latter begins with a caption identifying the action as located in Korea in 1953, but unlike 'The Manchurian Candidate' that's were the film remains.
Because the Korean War failed to end in outright victory films of that conflict tend to be short of the simple heroics that characterise films depicting the Second World War - described in this film as "The Big Bad War" - while the lack of women in the cast promises something mean and ugly.
The foreword that opens 'Sniper's Ridge' from the outset puts us on notice that as in many a cavalry film the men spend more time in fighting each other than engaging the enemy; a warning defined at a climactic moment (SPOILER COMING:) when an officer announces to his men that he's stepped on a mine and his sergeant says "Good!"
Because the Korean War failed to end in outright victory films of that conflict tend to be short of the simple heroics that characterise films depicting the Second World War - described in this film as "The Big Bad War" - while the lack of women in the cast promises something mean and ugly.
The foreword that opens 'Sniper's Ridge' from the outset puts us on notice that as in many a cavalry film the men spend more time in fighting each other than engaging the enemy; a warning defined at a climactic moment (SPOILER COMING:) when an officer announces to his men that he's stepped on a mine and his sergeant says "Good!"