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Arthur Howard, Brad Dexter, Broderick Crawford

A callow Southern aristocrat (the charismatically challenged Robert Wagner) acquires character and democratic values in the crucible of combat, via a laboriously complicated script that begins in the ...( read more  read more... )middle of things and then loads on explanatory flashbacks like a forklift. On "an island in the Pacific, 1945," the scion of a Tennessee cotton dynasty becomes not only comrade-in-arms but also friend to the sharecroppers he once scorned. Although the jungle island is crawling with Japanese snipers and patrols, the greatest danger comes from U.S. officers who are variously incompetent, "yellow," or--in the case of company commander Broderick Crawford--certifiably insane. Screenwriter Harry Brown wrote the World War II classic A Walk in the Sun 11 years earlier, but the characters here are a dull lot and the dialogue terminally flatfooted. However, director Richard Fleischer blocks his action scenes to take full advantage of the CinemaScope format. --Richard T. Jameson

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Unrated, 94 min.

Directed by: Richard Fleischer

Release Date: January 1, 1956

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DVD Release Date: May 21, 2002

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  • chiphall72
    October 6, 2007
    chiphall72
    A bit too melodramatic and not very well acted. Broderick Crawford is under-utiailzed.
  • Synysterly1
    May 7, 2007
    Synysterly1
    ggggggggggggggggggggggggg
  • reoline21
    December 1, 2006
    reoline21
    ITS YOUR OWN CHOICE....WHETHER YOU WANNA GO TO HEAVEN OR HELL...
  • SarahJoyFrost
    November 29, 2006
    SarahJoyFrost
    I'd like to see this movie!!

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