Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Directed by John Frankenheimer
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
It's the weak link in the "irreverent war" trilogy that consists of the much better MASH and Catch-22, although this does beat them both by a year. Alan Alda more or less invents his Hawkeye character here, he's got all the same mannerisms and it's impossible to ignore the similarities in setting. He's a hapless Army Lieutenant stranded on a Philippine island with a silent Indian, a gunner's mate and Mickey Rooney. They discover David Niven on a beached British steamer. He never eats, never sleeps, never leaves the bridge and drinks endless glasses of whiskey. Hmmm, extraordinary indeed. When they need batteries to restart the boat, um ship, they find Faye Dunaway running a junk yard. Back in operation, they hatch a plan to sink an enemy ship, any ship, and they just happen to pick the one they are on to sign the peace treaty which ended WWII.
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