Young stars Steve McQueen, Bobby Darin,
Fess Parker, Harry Guardino, James Coburn,
Nick Adams and Bob Newhart (in his film debut)
play a hopelessly out-numbered army.squad in
Hell Is For Heroes, a taut, explosive war
film directed by Don Siegel (Dirty Harry, Escape
From Alcatraz).
It's autumn 1944, and Nazi forces along the
Siegfried Line have the numbers, the fortifications
and the firepower to break through. And a
handful of Gls have little more than a dogged
determination and the ingenuity to fool the
Germans into thinking they represent a great
Allied Task Force. But can they make the ruse
last until reinforcements finally arrive?