 "Between Heaven and Hell" is one of the 1950s depictions of the US Army that did not paint a recruiting poster image and was more in tune with many soldiers' memories, such as "From Here to Eternity", Robert Aldrich's "Attack" or Samuel Fuller's films.Fleischer uses the Cinemascope widescreen format well, notably in views of hills lit up by a firefight.When the film was first released, "The New York Times" panned the film, writing, "To be just as blunt about it as Twentieth Century-Fox, "Between Heaven and Hell," a World War II drama, lands accordingly, with a pretty dull thud.