The Steel Helmet (1951)

Similar to War Hunt, this movie involves a Korean orphan joining up with an American soldier. Gene Evans’s Sergeant Zack is somewhere between Redford’s and Saxon’s characters in that film: cynical enough to negotiate for cigars to join a different unit’s mission but still human enough to connect with other people around him. Samuel Fuller creates a stark, unsentimental view of war, focusing simply on the unit as they prepare and fight in a singular battle from a Buddhist temple which no one but the survivors will remember.