Blood and Steel

MOVIE #1,301 • 🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿 • 12.28.23 WELL, HONG? • CHAPTER 14 The second 50s war picture featuring James Hong in a row is a much, much smaller affair in pretty much every way than the last entry: it lacks the star power, budget and has the ‘hardly a feature ‘ run-time of 63 minutes. It still features a strident pro-war message, as they deride the peace message back at home. This is set in a remote member of the Pacific islands during WWII but it was made in the heyday of the Cold War with the conflict in Vietnam looming. Though ‘Nam was five or six years off, it's interesting to see how this particular message was already being flooded into what's more or less a small-time propaganda movie.

That’s James Hong in one of his two or three speaking scenes. He's a Chinese man playing a Japanese officer who's speaking English.

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Blood and Steel is a 1959 American drama film directed by Bernard L. Kowalski and written by Joseph C. Gilette. The film stars John Lupton, James Edwards, Brett Halsey, John Brinkley, Allen Jung and Ziva Rodann. The film was released on December 30, 1959, by 20th Century Fox. It was also known as Condemened Patrol. It was released on December 30, 1959.