The Steel Helmet (1950) by Samuel Fuller
Saturday, July 17, 1982, 8:00 pm
Sam Fuller’s First 2
The Steel Helmet (1950) and I Shot Jesse James (1949)
Both of these poverty-row productions are among Fuller’s strongest films, one a western, the other a war movie. Steel Helmet takes place in some vague, Sartrean jungle netherworld, while I Shot… was constructed almost entirely in close-ups, “…of an oppressive intensity the cinema had not experienced since Dreyer’s Passion of Joan of Arc.” —Sarris