Superb PR for the ARMY...cough cough

Rating: 5/10 (8 December 2013)

the 40's films conveyed cool when you were cookin with camels... accepted as novel concept but 1953!!!! as a former smoker I was gaging at the incessant billowing and blowing butts on every surface.... total gack and what kind of Army were they trying to portray, thugs n ganstas??? what a bunch of losers with nothing better to do than whine with the re-enlistment blues song (though I did like the rendition)... play dirty pool and get drunk daily... ever meet a military man of today, they could not endure scene ONE from this sordid script, supposedly cleaned up from the original novel... anyhow, Monty was excellent and extremely believable with his horn tootin' and even boxing, Ernest played too much against type, Kerr was horrific and uncomfortable in this lost lil girl role, Donna Reed was a highlight, and the larger than life colonel commando Lancaster over the top as per usual was enjoyable, he only let loose a few times.... what a man! loved the Hawaiian shirts, did not know they wore them back then, have a few myself! Pearl was such an afterthought it was almost shocking to see it quietly inserted at the very end, 'cept for the constant calendar shots to give you some heads up... the tragedy of those many lives lost is simply given short shrift with this aimless, soulless, and tribute to the eternity that is Hollywood... would be funny if they had already invented those smokeless electric cigarettes... have to rely on blowing bad breath to impress a woman???
recommend for Sinatra's olive dice game and two pretty lei's ;}}