BAPTISM OF FIRE

Featuring familiar Hollywood character actors (such as Elisha Cook, Jr.) as distribution was restricted to prevent the enemy from getting their hands on a film where American soldiers were shown as hesitant or even potentially cowardly. As such, it features some salty language (though nothing like the overkill you hear in most contemporary war films). The violence is quite strong, featuring intense and graphic hand-to-hand fighting that was never seen in a commercial Hollywood movie of the period. It is an intense, penetrating study that is as relevant to contemporary soldiers as it was for men serving in WWII.