Devastatingly True In Its Characterizations and Script

Rating: 10/10 (3 July 2000)

Frederick March has never been better. Harold Russell is devastatingly on the mark. Dana Andrews is heart-rending. When I first saw this I was expecting, rah-rah, go yanks! This movie is anything but, one of the most thoughtful postwar essays ever compiled by Hollywood, hard-edged and blunt at the same time. This should be seen by every teenager who thinks there may be a glamorous aspect to war, or to life for that matter.