One thing I loved about Steel Helmet and Shock Corridor was how Fuller used a cheesy genre setting to really let things fly in terms of examining what being American means.
Steel Helmet references segregation openly and caustically in 1951! Three of the inmates in Shock Corridor are a cross section of commentary about racism, patriotism and the A-bomb. Only Fuller could have gotten away with it because he was largely under the radar of upturned critical noses.
