Target Zero

Válečný / drama, USA, 1955, 92 min.



In 1952, in Korea, United Nations relief worker Ann Galloway and her assistant Sue are near the front line administering medical care to South Korean refugees. When their jeep is hit by gunfire, Sue is killed and Ann rendered unconscious. Five hours later, Ann awakens and learns from the British tank crewmen who have rescued her that Communists now control the area. Once Ann is safe inside the tank, the three-member crew, led by Sgt. David Kemsemmit, drives south to reunite with their troops. They are soon met by a remnant of an American patrol led by Lt. Tom Flagler, who is trying to rendezvous with his Easy Company at a ridge farther north. David decides to merge his men with Tom's patrol, despite his unexplained antagonism toward Tom and his reluctance to move farther into enemy territory, because they will be safer together. Ann, who majored in biochemistry, is put in charge of nursing Pvt. Dan O'Hirons, a seriously wounded man in Tom's patrol. As they travel, Ann watches Tom, intrigued that he knows each man personally, and Tom confides that he must be able to gauge how each man will react under pressure. Later, two mortarmen, survivors of a slaughtered unit, join the group. After a small victory in a skirmish against the North Koreans, Tom resumes the group's trek to the ridge. Although most of the men doubt that Easy Company is there, they follow him anyway, and Sgt. Vince Gaspari, a professional soldier and family man, explains to Ann that Tom's instincts are rarely wrong. While crossing a plain, an explosion injures one of the men, alerting them to a mine field. David volunteers to drive the tank across to clear the field, and after the tank sets off the explosives on its path, Ann and the men follow, stepping in the tire tracks. After safely traversing the minefield, the soldiers encounter a shrine, where a South Korean under Tom's command stops to pray. While the others wait, David tells Ann he admires her and explains that his dislike of American soldiers stems from one mistreating his sister during World War II. When Tom compliments Ann for the way she has conducted herself, he elicits her loyalty, but David jealously points out that Tom only said what she wanted to hear. Later, Ann suggests to Gaspari that Tom thinks of people as tools to manipulate, and Gaspari responds that Tom keeps them alive. In the distance, they see a convoy of North Koreans moving toward them, and Tom organizes an ambush to hijack the trucks and appropriate gas for their tank. When a captured North Korean kills two Americans while attempting to escape, a fight ensues, during which he is crushed by the tank and his comrades shot. That evening, at the base of the mountain where Easy Company was last seen, Ann accuses Tom of valuing people only for the job they do. Admitting that there is nothing beyond that, he aggressively kisses her. Ann stops Tom, and then prevents David from fighting with him by forbidding him to use her as an excuse for his personal contention. While Gaspari cautions Ann that Tom is someone who cannot love anything that loves him back, Tom leads two men to the top of the ridge and discovers that Easy Company has been massacred. Tom's morale is shattered because his life has been centered around the company, prompting Ann to suggest that he needs someone to love and explain why she is attracted to him. When a phone line is discovered to be working, Tom contacts the colonel of an American command post, who orders that they hold the ridge until the arrival of American troops, who have forced the North Koreans to retreat. As Tom's men prepare to defend themselves, Ann reports that O'Hirons has died. After comforting Ann and professing that their feelings for each other are lasting and real, Tom moves through the foxholes, talking to each man, and finally making peace with David. In the valley, Air Force planes strafe enemy soldiers heading northward, while a Navy ship, using coordinates telephoned by Tom, fires missiles at North Korean targets. The telephone line goes dead as the shelling gets too close to Tom's group, but Tom manages to repair the line in time to redirect the missiles. When North Koreans storm the hill, Tom's men defeat them in hand-to-hand combat. Later, after the North Koreans are routed, David, Gaspari and the rest of the men watch Tom with Ann and comment "a man stays alive so he can find things to live for."
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