Saturday, April 14, 2012

There's Something About a Soldier (1943)


Columbia Pictures
Directed by Alfred E. Green
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Sony Screen Classics by Request)

Seventeen weeks at an Officer's Candidate School in North Carolina is the setting for this wartime picture. Cocky Wally Williams (Tom Neal) likes to boss around his peers and show off in front of the girls, making enemies of the more personable Frank Molloy (Bruce Bennett). They divide their time between the rigorous training at the school and courting a base secretary. Interesting for a look inside the training school, it combines real footage and back projection for the stars, who were obviously never in North Carolina. Williams' transformation from heel to self-sacrificing hero is not particularly convincing.

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