| Academy Awards, USA | |||
| Year | Result | Award | Category/Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Nominated | Oscar | Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture Max Steiner |
Warner Bros.
Directed by Raoul Walsh
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Warner)
Long, boring look at the love lives of Marine recruits as they go through training camp and then get shipped off to the Pacific. It's more like Peyton Place than a war movie: episodic and trashy. These teenage boys relentlessly pursue women during their endless furloughs and leaves, it does not matter if the girls are married, or if the men have girlfriends waiting back home. You know there is something wrong when the stock footage of real battles is more exciting than the 15 minutes or so of action tacked on to the end of this 2 and a half hour snooze fest. Van Heflin is uninspiring as the Major who leads the men, James Whitmore a mere caricature of a drill sergeant and the women, well we won't even go there.
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