17/09/2026
WAR STORIES — HOLLYWOOD REMEMBERS
"I cannot conceive of a greater tragedy for America than to get heavily involved now in an all-out war in any of those regions." - Eisenhower, February 1954
27th July 1953, The Korean war ended
The President called it a “police action.” The shooting has stopped. The boys are coming home. Washington says the job is done and the Communist threat has been dealt with. Hollywood, naturally, has already moved on. But some memories don't make it home, even on the slow boat from Inchon or Yokohama.
There are men and women walking around this town carrying pieces of two wars with them. Missing friends. Old wounds. Nightmares nobody puts in a press release. Faces that look perfectly fine beneath the studio lights and memories that aren't.
The Second World War is barely a decade gone. Korea has only just stopped burning. For some, the uniform is still hanging in the closet. For others, it is something they are trying very hard not to remember.
Not everybody in Hollywood went to war. Some were too young. Some were too valuable to the studios. Some had other reasons. And some signed up because they believed it was the right thing to do.
Against Hi**er. Against Stalin. Against fascism. Against communism. For their country. For freedom. For the fellow beside them. Sometimes the reasons were noble. Sometimes they were complicated. Usually, they were personal.
The characters in B Movie are based on real people, many of whom did go to war. Their stories are affected by this: soldiers, heroes, journalists, men and women who saw and experienced things that changed the shape of their lives.
Their stories do not disappear simply because the cameras start rolling. In Invasion of the Atomic Space Witches, Hollywood gets to pretend that war is just a uniform or a special effect, and there is always a happy ending waiting when the credits roll, but behind the camera, some of these people know better.
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