Fixed Bayonets! Page #2

Synopsis: The story of a platoon during the Korean War. One by one Corporal Denno's superiors are killed until it comes to the point where he must try to take command responsibility.
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Director(s): Samuel Fuller
Production: 20th Century Fox
 
IMDB:
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Year:
1951
92 min
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We'll run into some small patrols.

Maybe one joker, maybe two, maybe three.

But whatever happens,

we don't want them to find out...

we're just a small rearguard

holding a delaying action.

- Rearguard? That's us?

- Yep.

What is this rearguard?

The object of the rearguard is to

check enemy pursuit and harassment...

and thus allow the main body

to retire unmolested.

- Hey, what did he say?

- He said rearguard.

That how you got those two stripes,

Denno, memorizing the book?

All right, you guys,

knock it off..

Remember, the man on his belly

out here looks like snow.

A man standing up

looks like a man.

Easy.

The minute they spot us, they'll hit us and run.

They won't take any chances hanging around.

We got to make a lot of noise.

We got to sound like a regiment.

Hey, look what I found-

dry socks.

I smell more people,

real close.

Fix bayonets.

You heard the man.

Fix your knife.

Okay, you guys,

spread out and dig for money.

If you don't see anything,

shoot anyway.

Denno, that'll be

your hole. Dig.

A little to the right.

Hold on. Not yet.

That's it. You've got him

balled in the center.

Squeeze the trigger.

Take up the slack.

You've gotta shoot him.

Now, Denno. In the head.

Shoot, Denno.

Shoot him. Shoot.

Why can't I kill a man? What's the matter

with me? Why do I freeze at a single target?

I can fire at a lot of them. I can do

anything the rest of the platoon can do.

I'm not chicken.

I've got plenty of guts.

But why can't I shoot a man?

What's wrong with me?

I've got to shoot him.

Squeeze, Denno, squeeze.

Congratulations, Denno.

Now you've joined the big fraternity.

That was a perfect bull's-eye.

All you got to remember is you're not

aiming at a man. You're aiming at the enemy.

Once you're over that hump, you're

a rifleman. And you've been baptized.

It'll be a lot easier

from now on. Like spittin'.

How are you laying

the antitank mines, Wolowicz?

Crazy quilt pattern,

Lieutenant.

Planting them

way out to that bush.

And the antipersonnel mines?

Lazy-daisy, sir,

covering this whole area...

and both flanks.

All you got to do is

breathe on them and boom!

The guys better be careful

moving around, Lieutenant.

- Make a map of this minefield

and be sure and give it to me.

- Yes, sir.

Lonergan.

- Sir?

- How many people up there?

Nothing, Lieutenant.

- Vogl, do you see them?

- Nothing, sir.

Lonergan, come on down and get these guys

on the ball. I'm checking on the minefield.

We got troubles up here,

Lieutenant.

- Commies?

- Sergeant Rock.

- What's the beef?

- Planting the 75.

Coming up.

This is one of the times it ain't funny,

knowing what to do.

Toughest rap for an officer,

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Samuel Fuller

Samuel Michael Fuller (August 12, 1912 – October 30, 1997) was an American screenwriter, novelist, and film director known for low-budget, understated genre movies with controversial themes, often made outside the conventional studio system. Fuller wrote his first screenplay for Hats Off in 1936, and made his directorial debut with the Western I Shot Jesse James (1949). He would continue to direct several other Westerns and war thrillers throughout the 1950s. Fuller shifted from Westerns and war thrillers in the 1960s with his low-budget thriller Shock Corridor in 1963, followed by the neo-noir The Naked Kiss (1964). He was inactive in filmmaking for most of the 1970s, before writing and directing the war epic The Big Red One (1980), and the experimental White Dog (1982), whose screenplay he co-wrote with Curtis Hanson. more…

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