Too Late the Hero (1970)
Genre: Action / War
Duration: 144 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Robert Aldrich
Stars: Michael Caine, Cliff Robertson and Henry Fonda
IMDb score:
6,6 (4.306)
Releasedate: 20 May 1970
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Too Late the Hero plot
"War. It's a dying business."
When their perilous mission on a Pacific island fails, two soldiers find themselves in a deadly battle against the enemy.
Actors and actresses
Pvt. Tosh Hearne
Lt. Sam Lawson
Capt. John G Nolan
Pvt. Jock Thornton
Col. Thompson
Captain Hornsby
Private Campbell
Cpl. McLean
Sgt. Johnstone
Major Yamaguchi
Reviews & comments
coumi
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- 1462 messages
- 12346 votes
Watched mainly because all-rounder Michael Caine was in it. Director Aldrich made his name mainly with his monumental war film The Dirty Dozen, but this lesser-known war movie is qualitatively a level lower. It needs a very long run-up, the first part is hardly interesting, also because the director hardly gives his characters any body. Fortunately, that improves in the second half, then it also becomes clear that Aldrich actually aims for the same thing with Too Late the Hero as with The Dirty Dozen: this is also not an epic of heroes but a reality from Aldrich's raw reality. In a war there are no heroes, only soldiers who are mainly concerned with themselves and primarily only try to survive. Typical: the only one who shows a bit of humanity in this film is, mind you, a hostile Japanese and in return he is faced with a merciless reckoning. Identical message as in his aforementioned masterpiece, only he managed to package it better. It's a shame that the film's stars (Fonda, Robertson and Caine) hardly get a chance to make anything of their roles.
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