Doesn't Age Well

Rating: 5/10 (22 July 2018)

I loved this movie when I was a kid. Unfortunately the comedy doesn't seem as funny now, just juvenile. Many other reviewers agree with me and say this makes the movie unrealistic. On this point I have to disagree for the following reasons.
The play upon which this movie was based on was written by two former prisoners of war. One of those writers played the role of the husband of the adultress who "found a baby left on the porch ". This man should know first hand what life in a POW camp was like. Secondly the comedic tastes of "The Great Generation" were not subtle.
These were enlisted men. Just before the war, the country was experiencing the great economic depression. A high school education was not typical of these men. My father for example, had only attained a 6th grade education. Even though hollywood movies were replacing vaudeville circuit shows, they still existed and their level of comedy was still of the pie in your face variety.
What I'm saying is; while today we may see the attempts at comedy as juvenile, it was very much typical of the times and that does not make this movie unrealistic.