The Steel Bayonet (1957)

Directors

Michael Carreras

Cast

Leo Genn, Kieron Moore, Michael Medwin, Robert Brown

The story

In Tunisia in 1943, as the North African Campaign draws to a close, and the German and Italian forces are being pushed back on Tunis, a company of British infantry are tasked with holding a small Arab farm against an expected last-ditch counter-attack; the farm's water tower will be used as an observation point by a few Royal Artillery spotters. To defend the farm British Lieutenant Colonel Derry picks a company led by Major Alan Gerrard; these men have been in the thick of the fighting around Tunis and are greatly reduced in number (described by the narrator as down to barely two platoons). So Gerrard's company set out on foot for the…

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