Hell Is For Heroes | 1962
- Locations |
- Los Angeles, California
- DIRECTOR |
- Don Siegel
Don Siegel has been quoted as saying that if he ever made a war movie, it would be a seriously anti-war movie, and with this he really delivers.
A small platoon of six men are left to guard a vulnerable spot on the Siegfried Line against impossible odds during World War II.
Despite appearances, most of the film was shot on huge interior sets built at Paramount Pictures in Hollywood – the mainly nighttime setting helps.
Before the studio filming began, the final battle sequence around the pillbox had already been shot. It was staged on the ranch of Dr Joseph Price, east of Cottonwood, on I-5 about 20 miles south of Redding in Shasta County, Northern California.
Filming was hampered by an unseasonably ferocious heatwave and the abrupt conclusion was the result of money having run out, like the fortuitous endings of Sam Peckinpah's Cross Of Iron, and Michael Reeves’s Witchfinder General.
