Breakthrough

The film takes up the landings of 1944. The account follows an infantry company. Captain Tom Hale is at its head. A new lieutenant joins them. The lieutenant is called Joe Mallory. Mallory has just come out of officer school. The seasoned soldiers do not trust him. The mistakes he makes in training deepen that mistrust. But in time he learns the job. Sergeant Pete Bell has much to do with that learning. The company moves from Normandy as far as Saint-Lo. The fighting in the hedgerows is the tensest part of the account. The film was put together together with real combat footage. David Brian, John Agar and Frank Lovejoy take the leads in Lewis Seiler’s American film of 1950.