Word: helmets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commander for bravery, he dressed him down for not advancing quickly enough. After one of his best staff officers had made a rough landing during the Normandy jump, Ridgway sent for him. Flattered, the colonel expected congratulations on his safe arrival. Instead, Ridgway, noticing that he had lost his helmet, snapped, "Where the hell's your equipment...
...days and for $91,000, he was fluid enough to put out a picture on space ships (Rocketship X M) in time to sop up the publicity being lavished on the then forthcoming Destination Moon. He beat every other studio to the Korean war with The Steel Helmet (now doing well enough to promise a $2,000,000 gross). Lippert prefers not to say what Helmet cost, while he is still selling it to exhibitors who dislike paying big rentals for quickies...
Stealing a march on his bigger rivals, Independent Producer Robert Lippert has already issued The Steel Helmet, the first movie based on the Korean fighting. Though it features a strikingly Mauldin-like performance by Newcomer Gene Evans as a battered infantryman, the film constantly betrays its quickie origin, leaves the field wide open to such forthcoming pictures as RKO's The Korean Story, Eagle Lion Classics' Korea Patrol, Columbia's A Yank in Korea. Also on the way, celebrating other wars and warriors: MGM's Go for Broke, Paramount's The Submarine Story, 20th Century...
...expression on his face, his helmet and rifle, the destruction and desolation behind him, and the darkened sky, bring back to us what war means. We know some of its horrors. We don't want them again...
...biography. After reading Cervantes, those who would like to know its subject better are likely to find themselves right back where they startedstaring into the sad, heroic face of the mad knight who called windmills his enemies and wore a barber's basin as a helmet...