Terrence Stephen McQueen, also known as Steve McQueen in his movie and nicknamed ‘King of Cool,’ was an American actor, born on March 24, 1930. His antihero persona, which was reinforced during the 1960s counterculture heyday, earned him a top box-office draw for his 1960s and 1970s flicks.
Don Siegel directed Hell Is for Heroes, a 1962 American war movie featuring Steve McQueen. It relates the narrative of a squad of 95th Infantry Division soldiers who, in the fall of 1944, must hold off a whole German company along the Siegfried Line for nearly 48 hours until reinforcements arrive.
In World War II, writer Robert Pirosh served as a master sergeant with the 35th Infantry Division. After creating the screenplay for Battleground, a 1949 war movie about the 101st Airborne Division paratroopers’ defense of Bastogne, he went on to write and direct Go for Broke!, a 1951 war film about the renowned 442nd Regimental Combat Team.
He developed the World War II TV series Combat! shortly after Hell Is for Heroes. Some of the events in Pirosh’s movie are based on his unit’s withdrawal from the Vosges to move on to the Battle of the Bulge, with their previous positions in the line maintained by a small force in a covert deception operation at the time. Nick Adams’ Polish character was inspired by a real-life displaced individual who followed his unit around.
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