Attack (Fragile Fox) (1956)

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Directed by

Robert Aldrich

Starring (View all)

Jack Palance
Lt. Joe Costa - Fox Co.

Eddie Albert
Capt. Erskine Cooney

Lee Marvin
Lt. Col. Clyde Bartlett - CO, White Battalion

Robert Strauss
Pfc. Bernstein

Richard Jaeckel
Pvt. Snowden

Buddy Ebsen
Sfc. Tolliver - Fox Co.

Jon Shepodd
Cpl. John Jackson - Fox Co.

Peter van Eyck
SS Captain

Written by

Norman Brooks
(play Fragile Fox)

James Poe
(screenplay)

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During the closing days of WWII, a National Guard Infantry Company is assigned the task of setting up artillery observation posts in a strategic area. Lieutenant Costa knows that Cooney is in command only because of 'connections' he had made state-side. Costa has serious doubts concerning Cooneys' ability to lead the group. When Cooney sends Costa and his men out, and refuses to re-enforce them, Costa swears revenge.

Release date: 5 October 1956
UPC: 027616885753

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"24.8. This film was years ahead of its time, depicting an incompetent officer with political connections setting stage for disaster after another. Pentagon refused to co-operate with a revisionist war film such as this, so there's no tanks or uniforms. "

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"A fantstic tale focussing around leadership, or more to the point... Lack of. The LT finds himself sold out by the Captain and swears revenge. Old but gold. B/W "