Retreat, Hell!

Retreat, Hell is a 1952 American war film about the 1st Marine Division in the Korean War, directed by Joseph H. Lewis. It stars Frank Lovejoy as a career Marine battalion commander who is recalled from work at an American embassy, Richard Carlson as a veteran captain and communications specialist of World War II called up from the Marine Corps Reserves, Russ Tamblyn as a seventeenyearold private who hides his true age to serve with the unit overseas and outdo his older brother, also a Marine, and Nedrick Young credited as Ned Young. Also appearing in the film is Peter Julien Ortiz, a highly decorated Marine who served in the Office of Strategic Services OSS and appeared in various films after retiring from the military.

The private Tamblyn goes looking for his older brother and is shown a row of dead Marines. One of them, he discovers, is his brother. The battalion commander Lovejoy is supposed to send him home per a regulation covering the last survivor of a family. The Chinese Communist offensive puts this on hold for the moment, and he is nearly killed during the withdrawal in a snowstorm until saved by a joint AmericanBritish force.With the U.S. Marine Corpss fight for life at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir against the Chinese Communist Forces offensive in the winter of 1950 being anxiously followed in the news of the day, Warner Brothers submitted a proposal onDecember 1950 to the Marines to make a film about the events. The Marines approved the request, with former Marine Milton Sperling producing and cowriting the film for his United States Pictures division of Warners. The Marine Corps worked closely with Sperling on the script giving it their approval in August 1951 and agreeing to six weeks of filming at Camp Pendleton where the film crew bulldozed a road and sprinkled the area with gypsum to simulate snow. The Marines also created accurate Korean villages for the film. Commandant of the Marine Corps Lemuel Shepherd estimated the value of the Marine cooperation at US1,000,000. The Hollywood Production Code Office originally refused to approve the title because of its ban on the word hell, but changed their mind after requests from the Marine Corps. ........

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