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{{Infobox film<br />
| name = Eight Iron Men<br />
| image = Eight Iron Men FilmPoster.jpeg<br />
| caption = [[Mary Castle]] on poster<br />
| director = [[Edward Dmytryk]]<br />
| producer = [[Stanley Kramer]]<br />
| based_on = {{based on|''A Sound of Hunting''<br>1945 play|[[Harry Brown (writer)|Harry Brown]]}}<br />
| screenplay = [[Harry Brown (writer)|Harry Brown]]<br />
| starring = [[Bonar Colleano]]<br/>[[Arthur Franz]]<br/>[[Lee Marvin]]<br/>[[Richard Kiley]]<br />
| music = [[Leith Stevens]]<br />
| cinematography = J. Roy Hunt<br />
| editing = [[Aaron Stell]], Harry W. Gerstad<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/50470-EIGHT-IRON-MEN?cxt=filmography|title=AFI&#124;Catalog|website=catalog.afi.com}}</ref><br />
| studio = Stanley Kramer Productions<br />
| distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]]<br />
| released = {{Film date|1952|12|}}<br />
| runtime = 80 minutes<br />
| country = United States<br />
| language = English<br />
}}<br />
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'''''Eight Iron Men''''' is a 1952 American [[World War II]] drama film directed by [[Edward Dmytryk]] and produced by [[Stanley Kramer]].<ref name="New York Times">{{cite web |url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/90332/Eight-Iron-Men/details |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071224010131/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/90332/Eight-Iron-Men/details |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 24, 2007 |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2007 |title=Eight Iron Men |access-date=May 22, 2011 }}</ref> It stars [[Bonar Colleano]], [[Arthur Franz]], [[Lee Marvin]] and [[Richard Kiley]]. The screenplay by [[Harry Brown (writer)|Harry Brown]] was based on his 1945 play ''A Sound of Hunting'', which had featured [[Sam Levene]], [[Frank Lovejoy]] and [[Burt Lancaster]] during its short run on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]].<br />
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==Plot==<br />
Three American infantrymen—Carter ([[Arthur Franz]]), Ferguson ([[James Griffith]]) and Small ([[George Cooper (American actor)|George Cooper]])—are returning from patrol in a bombed-out town when they are pinned down by an enemy [[machine gun]]. Meanwhile, Coke ([[Richard Kiley]]), who was separated from the patrol, returns on his own to the squad's basement outpost where goof-off Private Collucci ([[Bonar Colleano]]) is sleeping, dreaming of beautiful women. A runner from company headquarters delivers a package for a squad member and tells the men that the regiment is moving out of the line that night. Shortly after another patrol returns with Sgt. Mooney ([[Lee Marvin]]) and privates Sapiros ([[Nick Dennis]]) and Muller ([[Dickie Moore (actor)|Dickie Moore]]).<br />
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Muller opens the package and finds a [[fruitcake]], which he divides eight ways. Carter and Ferguson manage to get back, but the clumsy Small has been left behind, trapped in a shell hole by the machine gun fire. Sgt. Mooney wants to send out a rescue party, and persuades his [[platoon]] leader Lt. Crane ([[Richard Grayson (actor)|Richard Grayson]]) to take the request to Capt. Trelawny ([[Barney Phillips]]), their company commander. A sniper kills Crane before he reaches the company command post. Mooney goes to Trelawny but the captain orders Mooney not to attempt a rescue, saying that while he doesn't want to leave Small, he also doesn't want to lose men on what seems to be a "[[wikt:wild-goose chase|wild-goose chase]]." The men debate the pros and cons of going after Small while Collucci tries to persuade Muller to let him eat Small's piece of fruitcake.<br />
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A runner alerts the squad that the company is pulling out in half an hour but another burst of machine gun fire galvanizes Mooney. He disobeys orders and with Coke, Muller, and a [[Mortar (weapons)|mortar]], goes for Small. The mortar fire fails to silence the gun, however. Trelawny hears the exploding shells and angrily heads to the squad's outpost where he confronts Carter for not stopping Mooney. Collucci goes out while the two argue, but Carter persuades the captain to overlook the disobedience.<br />
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Mooney returns saying they couldn't get close, but if Small had still been alive, he would have made a break for it during the mortar fire. When Collucci is nearly shot by the sniper and returns fire, the squad realizes that he has gone alone to retrieve Small. Using a destroyed tank as cover to get close, he tosses grenades that destroy the machine gun nest. Collucci returns as the squad is rolling up its gear to move out, carrying Small. It turns out that Small sprained his ankle, injected himself with [[morphine]], and slept through the whole ordeal. As all eight men leave their former home, Collucci eats the last piece of fruitcake.<br />
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==Cast==<br />
* [[Bonar Colleano]] as Pvt. Collucci<br />
* [[Arthur Franz]] as Carter<br />
* [[Lee Marvin]] as Sgt. Joe Mooney<br />
* [[Richard Kiley]] as Pvt. Coke<br />
* [[Nick Dennis]] as Pvt. Sapiros<br />
* [[James Griffith]] as Pvt. Ferguson<br />
* [[Dickie Moore (actor)|Dickie Moore]] as Pvt. Muller (as Dick Moore)<br />
* George Cooper as Pvt. Small<br />
* [[Barney Phillips]] as Captain Trelawny<br />
* [[Robert Nichols (actor)|Robert Nichols]] as Walsh<br />
* Richard Grayson as Lieutenant Crane<br />
* [[Douglas Henderson (actor)|Douglas Henderson]] as Hunter<br />
* [[Mary Castle]] as Girl<br />
* [[Angela Stevens]] as Girl in Daydream ''(uncredited)''<br />
* [[Kathleen O'Malley]] as Girl in Daydream ''(uncredited)''<br />
* [[Sue Casey]] as Girl in Daydream ''(uncredited)''<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb title|0044579|Eight Iron Men}}<br />
* {{tcmdb title|id=27618}}<br />
* {{amg movie|90332}}<br />
* {{AFI film|id=50470|title=Eight Iron Men}}<br />
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{{Edward Dmytryk}}<br />
{{Stanley Kramer}}<br />
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[[Category:1952 films]]<br />
[[Category:1952 drama films]]<br />
[[Category:1950s war drama films]]<br />
[[Category:1950s English-language films]]<br />
[[Category:American black-and-white films]]<br />
[[Category:American World War II films]]<br />
[[Category:American films based on plays]]<br />
[[Category:Films directed by Edward Dmytryk]]<br />
[[Category:Columbia Pictures films]]<br />
[[Category:Films with screenplays by Harry Brown (writer)]]<br />
[[Category:Films produced by Stanley Kramer]]<br />
[[Category:Films scored by Leith Stevens]]<br />
[[Category:Italian Campaign of World War II films]]<br />
[[Category:American war drama films]]<br />
[[Category:1950s American films]]</div>Bot