The Young Warriors (1967)

Directed by

John Peyser

Genre

war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 33m

Rated

12

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A squad of young American soldiers fights in Germany during World War II. The film follows their experiences as raw infantrymen facing combat for the first time.

old-fashionedearnestgrittysentimentalstraightforwardlow-budgetseriousdramatic

What happens

The Young Warriors is a war film filmed in 1967 by Universal Pictures based on Richard Matheson's 1960 novel The Beardless Warriors that was the working title of the film. The novel was inspired by Matheson's own experiences as an 18-year-old infantryman with the 87th Infantry Division in Germany in World War II. The film was directed by John Peyser. It was filmed cheaply by Universal on their backlot using many of its contract players, with Matheson asked to do a rewrite of his screenplay in order to use the battle sequences from Universal's To Hell and Back. When Universal wished to "lighten" Matheson's screenplay, they had Jonathan Daly write a comedy relief scene of chasing a duck through a minefield. The film was released as a double feature with Rosalind Russell's Rosie! (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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