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Steel Bayonet
An exhausted and depleted army unit is sent on one final assignment to defend a deserted farm from the advancing Germans in Tunisia.
UK 1957
Directed by Michael Carreras
With Leo Genn, Kieron Moore, Michael Medwin, Michael Ripper
Running time 85min
Certificate PG
Tunisia 1943. An exhausted and depleted army unit is sent on one final assignment – to defend a deserted farm from the advancing Germans. One of a short run of powerful war films Hammer made in the late 1950s, Steel Bayonet is a gripping example of the genre, balancing dramatic battle scenes with the human angle. Shot by Jack Asher in stark black-and-white and Hammerscope, the film effectively creates a scorching and inhospitable North Africa out of its UK locations.
The screening will be introduced by Hammer expert Jonathan Rigby.
Waterloo Bridge (near BFI Southbank) will be closed on 7 June Sunday between 7am and 7pm. BFI Southbank will be closed Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 June due to a private event.
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