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Director
  
Budget
  
11,500 USD

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

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IMDb

Genre
  
War, Drama

Screenplay
  
Writer
  
Burt Topper

Language
  
English

Hell Squad (1958 film) movie poster

Release date
  
July 1958 (1958-07) (USA )

Cast
  
Wally Campo
(Private Russo),
Brandon Carroll
(German Officer),
Fred Gavlin
(Sergeant Clemens),
Gregg Stewart
(Private Nelson),
Jack B. Sowards
(German Lieutenant in US uniform),
Leon Schrier
(Private Roth)

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Hell Squad is a 1958 American Word War II film, produced, written and directed by Burt Topper. It was his very first film. AIP originally released the film as a double feature with Tank Battalion.

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Hell squad


Plot

During World War II, a squad of five American soldiers become lost in Tunisia and are killed one by one in fights with German units. Finally only one man, Private Russo, is left, in the midst of a mine field, together with a German officer, locked in a stalemate. Russo has water, while the German claims to have a map revealing the mine positions. So Russo agrees to swap water for the map, but the German officer tries to double-cross him.

Main cast

  • Willy Campo as Private Russo
  • Brandon Carroll as German Officer
  • Fred Gavlin as Sergeant Clemens
  • Gregg Stewart as Private Nelson
  • Leon Schrier as Private Roth
  • Cecil Addis as Private Lippy
  • Production and release

    The film was shot in Indio, California in 1957 on 16mm. Shooting took six months and was done mostly on weekends. It cost Topper $11,500 to make.

    The film was originally titled The Ground They Walk, but was retitled Hell Squad when American International Pictures bought the cinema distribution rights. It was released in July 1958 as part of a double feature with the Korean War film Tank Battalion.

    References

    Hell Squad (1958 film) Wikipedia
    Hell Squad (1958 film) IMDb Hell Squad (1958 film) themoviedb.org