The Tanks Are Coming

The Tanks Are Coming

The Happy, Scrappy Story of those Hit-'Em-First Heroes!

NR 1951 · 90 min · ★ 8.2 · War

An American tank crew fights its way into Germany in World War II.

Directed by Lewis Seiler · Written by Robert Hardy Andrews

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