The Real Glory

As a vehicle for Cooper, Real Glory offers him a chance to perform some unusual feats of gallantry, over a wide terrain.

If it's an adventure film you want, uncomplicated by small talk and unconditionally guaranteed to build up your blood pressure, the [The Real Glory is] the place to find it.

Pleasant people, in a simple, well-made, tight melodrama, but it failed to stir me simply because I could not divorce this story of a minor island war of ours from the recollection of the newsreel I had seen just before The Real Glory began.

Cooper as the military doctor, who arrives with a present of orchids and a colonel's gallstone for his friends, has never acted better.

Gary Cooper is always at his best playing American heroes.