‘Fixed Bayonets!’: Unearthing a Forgotten War Film

Director Samuel Fuller directs a film about what soldiers experienced in the Korean War.

Cpl. Denno (Richard Basehart), in “Fixed Bayonets!” 20th Century Fox

NR | 1h 32m | Action, Drama, War | 1951

Hollywood once churned out movies in the 1950s about the Korean War, like “The Bridges at Toko-Ri” (1954) and “Pork Chop Hill” (1959). “Fixed Bayonets!,” directed by Samuel Fuller, isn’t a well-known war movie about the so-called “forgotten war,” but bears similarities with his gritty film, “The Steel Helmet” (also 1951).