My new Favorite Movie. Steve McQueen. No surprise there. 1962. 3 years before Hell is for Heroes. Didn’t realize they had made movies before that. You learn a new thing every day.

The douchebag who posted the clips on youtube refuses to show the love, so we all miss the greatest parts, which are The Steve on the ground. I’m afraid you are going to have to rent this one.

Steve plays Rickson, the leader of an entire B-17 squadron over Germany during the dark days in 1943. No demoted sargeant like Reese in Heroes. No. He is Rickson.

Not only is Rickson endowed with supernatural flying and fighting skills. He sends his pussy compatriots home during a Luftwaffe raid so he can finish off the bar while the proprietors are in the shelter. He would make Hemingway and Thompson proud. These were the pre-Reese days, when you needed the shit to take off the pre-combat shakes.

I’m only 42 minutes into the film, but Rickson is psycho and it is only 1962 (practically 1941 in WWII years, but 1943 in practice).

Good stuff. The actual combat is top notch. Based on a Hershey novel. Hershey? Didn’t he write Hiroshima?