One of the Great Movies Of The Sixties And Seventies

Rating: 9/10 (8 March 2005)

I have this excellent film in my library at home and am puzzled by some of the comments and observations, not to mention some of the dialog in the actual movie itself! The late David Arkin played the hapless STAFF Sgt Bulmer, and the character in the original script was assigned as STAFF Sgt, but I detected 2 arcs below the 3 chevrons, making him Sgt 1st Class by my calculation. Also the Lt.Col. referred to his squeeze, the lovely and equally late Indus Arthur,on more than one occasion as Captain when according to the script and the observations of this site, she was Lt. I first saw this movie in Britain in 1970 and can remember the section where Hawkeye spoke to a TV camera about life in war torn Korea, and remember his speech being a bit longer. It may have been cut during the US version as there were sensitivities due to the war in Vietnam. Having stated this it was an excellent film and was far superior to the consequential TV series.