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His 1958 World War II combat picture Paratroop Command is the best of American-International’s WW2 potboilers. But I think it’s even better than that. It contains a realism that sets it apart from most other WW2 movies done in that same era. So much so that it makes a lot of good and similar movies from that same time, Robert Aldrich’s Attack and Don Siegel’s Hell is for Heroes, look theatrical and stagey by comparison. (..) Shpetner, who spent most of his career as a producer, only wrote three produced screenplays, but his second one for William Witney is a doozy as well. The 1958 World War II action adventure “Paratroop Command.” It’s the best of American-International Pictures World War II potboilers. (Burt Topper’s “Hell Squad” is pretty good too), but I think it’s a little more than that. It contains a realism that sets it apart from most World War II movies of the fifties (Sam Fuller’s films aside). To compare it to “Platoon” might be going a bit too far, but only a bit. Because director Witney spent as much time in World War II as Oliver Stone did in Vietnam, and not making movies with the Mark Harris bunch.