A film with too many '60's sensibilities

Rating: 6/10 (14 August 2004)

This movie ultimately did not succeed with me, because it is a story that takes place in the forties, but is told using the sentimentalities of the sixties.
How else could you explain the presence of hippies and yippies during WWII? When Donald Sutherland starts talking about "negative waves", I had just about seen enough. There is no way a character like this could have existed during the forties.
It also shows a "troubled, do it my own way" character being the lead, which for 1970 was not that common.
Other than that, it is a pretty standard, formulaic picture. Good performances from all except Sutherland, and Carroll O'Connor is way over the top.
6 out of 10