Sam Fuller's lost war pilot: 26 minutes that'll wreck your weekend.
This unaired pilot for a series Fuller pitched to CBS about a U.S. infantry troop fighting its way through Nazi-held North Africa offers a fascinating new angle on Fuller’s relationship with the average foot soldier and moral complexity of war.
Direction
Fuller's kinetic camera in tight TV frames
Writing
Dialogue that actually sounds like soldiers talking
Acting
Luke Anthony's weary sergeant, no heroics
Director
Samuel Fuller
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Fuller recycled this pilot's DNA into his 1980 film 'The Big Red One,' basically expanding one episode into a masterpiece.
1959 TV wanted clean war heroes; Fuller delivered mud, fear, and no easy patriotism. Networks ran screaming.
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