| "Come in Razor Red" | |
|---|---|
| Armchair Theatre episode | |
| Directed by | Alvin Rakoff |
| Written by | Rod Serling |
| Original air date | February 14, 1960 |
Come in Razor Red is a 1960 British television play starring Richard Harris. It is set during the Korean War. [1] [2]
The play was based on a Rod Serling script that had been filmed in 1954 as The Strike .
An American officer is faced with the choice of having to sacrifice some men to save hundreds.
Flming took place at Teddington Studios. The US Marines provided soldiers for the production. [3]
The Irish Independent praised the acting but felt "the writing was too intense to convince on the small screen." [4] The Liverpool Post felt "the emphasis was so strongly on the emotional" that the story "had to be resolved by a shouting match." [5]
Sight and Sound called it "a B-feature toughie with psychological trimmings which never even provided the sort of cheap, vivid action excitements of that genre... To anyone with any experience of war in the British armed forces, the Major seemed the sort of dangerously wet amateur who should have been arrested on the spot by his second-in-command. Richard Harris gave a phoney, hollow, self-conscious performance, full of heavy breathing in a light baritone." [6]