Last week the trusty green 120-sided dive friendly fire selected a film so

superficially improbable that a small minority of faithless listeners cried out foul.

Imbusibouble!

Incriablah! they exclaimed in the signature fake French accents of faithless people.

Surely a random dast rule could not, and would not, deliver the second of Sam Fuller's

1951 Korean War films hot on the heels of the first?

Well, let me reply plainly in a language everyone understands, the fake British accent of science.

You see the probability that two events will both occur can never be greater than the probability that each will occur individually. So if two possible events, let's say

A and B are independent, then the probability that both A and B will occur is equal to the product of their individual

probabilities.

If an event can have a number of different and distinct possible outcomes,

A, B, and C, and so on,

then the probability that either A or B will occur

is equal to the sum of the individual probabilities of A and B, and the sum of the probabilities of all the possible

outcomes, A, B, and C and so on, is one, that is 100%.

In other words, the dye don't lie.

And a lovely little dip-tick the two films together are. Both starred Gene Evans as a gruff

sergeant, both filmed in the first year of the Korean War by the same writer and director.

Last week's The Steel Helmets surprised us all with its backyard production quality and

beat Nick's script, so we went into fixed bayonets prepared for weirdness.

Will it be the crucible performed by the Apple Dumpling gang?

Maybe Gunsmoke meets A Raisin in the Sun produced by Arthur Miller starring Charles

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