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Retreat, Hell! 95 minutes, USA (1952), PG
(2.0)
Rating: 2.0 Stars
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A platoon of Marines faces starvation unless it can blast its way through a snow-bound mountain pass. Korean War drama starring Frank Lovejoy and Richard Carlson, and directed by Joseph H Lewis

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Retreat, Hell!: There's a theory that the reason it took Hollywood a while to start making movies about the Vietnam War stemmed from the US's negative experiences in Korea. By contrast, the studios were quick to make films about the earlier Asian land war since the country's previous taste of combat, World War Two, had been such a great success...
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