In several scenes a Chinese soldier was shooting a German WWII MP40 also known as a Schmeisser submachine gun.
A Russian or a Chinese copy of a Russian weapon would have been used.
The U.S.
"All the Young Men" is a Korean war movie that finds an aging Alan Ladd and an up-and-coming Sidney Poitier leading a platoon of soldiers into a snow-bound Korean pass where they have to hold a farm-house against all the odds. It's not a bad film, just a rather formulaic one full of stock characters yet it's even quite exciting at times.
***SPOILERS*** Picked off by a Communist Chinese sniper USMC Let. Earl Toland, Charles Quinlivan, as he's about to go under turns over command of his squad to the green and inexperienced in leading men into combat Sgt.
American soldiers walk into an ambush in the Korean War. Their leader is killed.
While there are films made about the Korean war in the 1950's, their numbers are small compared to the second world war. This film deals not only with the small troop stranded in snowy mountains but the knowledge that the enemy is possibly just yards away.
In reviewing movies featuring African-Americans in chronological order for Black History Month, we're now at 1960 with All the Young Men. Sidney Poitier plays a marine sergeant during the Korean War who suddenly becomes the leader of his troop after the lieutenant dies and makes him so.
It must have been pretty awful filming this movie at Glacier National Park. There was a lot of snow and ice as the film makers were trying to re-create the cold winter in the Korean mountains.
The special effects were the only (barely) redeeming factor. The music was bad.
Terminally dull war movie that is only livened in fits and starts by Poitier's incensed portrayal. His obvious reluctance in the role adds a greater edge to the part of sergeant who doesn't want to be sergeant.
