Directed by Philip Dunne
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Fox Movie Channel)
Most of the running time is spent in San Francisco with a group of Marines during the days leading up to their deployment to the Pacific in WWII. It plays like a trashy soap opera, each man's story revolving around a girl. You've got the Sergeant who marries his girl after she tells him she's pregnant, then there is the rich Marine with a girlfriend who drinks too much and plays around so he has a one night stand, and finally there is Robert Wagner who spends most of the time drunk and obnoxious. All of this is supposed to let us get to know the characters before the inevitable war scenes. They are not all that bad, and make good use of stock footage, they are just too brief and frequently cut to the much less interesting domestic scenes and girlfriends.
No comments:
Post a Comment