A stocky figure, loud mouth, bullish features and personality, fitted Broderick Crawford for the roles of a crooked politician, upwardly mobile gangster and a psychopathic commanding officer, three of his finest performances
The film opens with Robert Wagner reassigned to a company posted up in the hills, a very isolated area under the command of Broderick Crawford (Waco) who almost breaks him, but the young manseen to get a little shaky in combatregains his resources and becomes a hero when he saves a fellow soldier (Buddy Ebsen).
With brief flashbacks, we discover that Wagner plays a Southern landowner who treats his croppers badly His beautiful wife Jenny (Terry Moore) just saw a side of him she never saw before Gifford argues that Jenny has just seen his business side But Gifford only comes to realize the error of his rude ways when he is called to active duty and put among the troops in the Pacific theater in World War II
Aside from a beachhead landing made up mainly of stock shots and a final battle with the enemy, there was a lot of talk
The film opens with Robert Wagner reassigned to a company posted up in the hills, a very isolated area under the command of Broderick Crawford (Waco) who almost breaks him, but the young manseen to get a little shaky in combatregains his resources and becomes a hero when he saves a fellow soldier (Buddy Ebsen).
With brief flashbacks, we discover that Wagner plays a Southern landowner who treats his croppers badly His beautiful wife Jenny (Terry Moore) just saw a side of him she never saw before Gifford argues that Jenny has just seen his business side But Gifford only comes to realize the error of his rude ways when he is called to active duty and put among the troops in the Pacific theater in World War II
Aside from a beachhead landing made up mainly of stock shots and a final battle with the enemy, there was a lot of talk