Sternberg (The Saga of Anatahan) has the Japanese
position, the Americans are added.
The ferocity of
the Pacific war is indicated.
Hell in the Pacific (dir. John Boorman) simplifies the equation.
Sinatra
remembers the initial patrol from Never
So Few (dir. John Sturges).
Rod
Serling has the reversibility of the situation abundantly displayed in “A
Quality of Mercy” (dir. Buzz Kulik) for The Twilight Zone.
No
bones about it, unfurl a red sun flag over U.S. Marines and the U.S. Navy
shells them, question of dictates under the circumstances and a great Jap
trick.
For
the madness and destruction of war, also the tediousness, there are few
comparisons.
A
truce hors de combat is not unknown
in Combat!, even The Rat Patrol.
“I
was a staff writer for various periodicals. Can’t break the habit,”
hence this history in a void.
Psychology
of the opposing commands, virginal, ideal.
Question
of a radio transmitter, resumption of hostilities.
Bosley
Crowther of the New York Times panned
it as deficient in every respect, “they used to make better war films at
Monogram,” he hadn’t any notion at all.
Variety didn’t have any of his King Saul humors. The
Catholic News Service Media Review Office delivered this homily, “the
story’s message of brotherhood is clearly stated but a bit too violently,”
which is several times an error. Tom Milne (Time
Out Film Guide) perceived “great competence” and more.
Halliwell’s Film Guide prefers the “action scenes” to the “admirable
sentiments,” whatever they are. There is a persistent, subtle echo of
Peter Brook’s Lord of the Flies.