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Writers:
William Wister Haines (written by)
Milton Krims (written by)
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Release Date:
August 1952 (USA) more
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Love That Lived with Danger! more
Plot:
Wartime drama about an idealistic young UN official (Ann Blyth) who finds out about the horrors of war... more | add synopsis
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Fairly Good Korean War Film more (16 total)

Cast

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Robert Mitchum ... Col. Steve Janowski
Ann Blyth ... Mrs. Landa Day
William Talman ... Col. Joe Parker
Charles McGraw ... Sfc. Baker
Margaret Sheridan ... Mary Parker
Richard Egan ... Capt. Ralston
Eduard Franz ... Dr. Gustav Engstrand
Robert Osterloh ... Maj. Davis
Robert Gist ... Maj. Carter
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Runtime:
105 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
Finland:(Banned) (1953) | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (certificate #15457)

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7 out of 11 people found the following review useful.
Fairly Good Korean War Film, 22 January 2003
6/10
Author: Theo Robertson from Isle Of Bute, Scotland

Unlike a great many films dealing with the Korean war ONE MINUTE TO ZERO does try to bring a sense of time and place to the proceedings . We see planes from Australia strafing North Korean troops while another scene scene shows British troops marching off to war behind a Scottish pipe band , and the most memorable sequence features North Korean infiltrators using refugees as human shields which did happen fairly often during that exceptionally cruel conflict. Compare this to most other films about the Korean war which could have been set in Asia or Europe during the second world war .

It does have a few flaws , for example there`s some painfully obvious real life film footage used and some of the battle scenes , especially the sequence with a soldier being killed by a flame thrower , could have been more graphic but I suppose that`s down to what you could show on screen in 1952 so perhaps that`s not a valid criticism . What is however is the inclusion of a love story which drags the story down some what . Women won`t want to watch ONE MINUTE TO ZERO because of the large number of combat scenes while fans of war films ( Who I guess are exclusively male ) will find the love story intrusive . But it`s a lot better than PEARL HARBOR

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