The success of post war movies like "Command Decision" and "Battleground" at MGM, "Twelve O'Clock High" at 20th, as well as a few others, gave movie makers the confidence that war movies could still be popular if they had good stories, so after a short lull, the genre was back. Mainly war films dealt with post war readjustment, but slipping in the stories only then being revealed about real combat added a different perspective that hadn't been seen during the war itself.
This one is a bit of a B, starring David Brian, a very rugged John Agar and Frank Lovejoy, playing trainees before they go off to battle on the mainland. The battle scenes are nicely filmed, perhaps a bit more explosive than earlier Warner Brothers war films, and the mixture of war drama with slice of life drama behind the scenes gives it a bit more of a human element.
I could have done without Dick Wesson's unfunny impersonations of veteran Warner stars, as he's painfully unfunny, but that's right at the beginning and easy to fast forward through. Realistic sets for war torn France are a plus, mixing with the country folk trying to lead their lives while bombs are going off around them. Fast moving and entertaining, reminding the post war audiences of what still needed to be fought to maintain even though declared war was over, and the continued damage being dealt with overseas.
This one is a bit of a B, starring David Brian, a very rugged John Agar and Frank Lovejoy, playing trainees before they go off to battle on the mainland. The battle scenes are nicely filmed, perhaps a bit more explosive than earlier Warner Brothers war films, and the mixture of war drama with slice of life drama behind the scenes gives it a bit more of a human element.
I could have done without Dick Wesson's unfunny impersonations of veteran Warner stars, as he's painfully unfunny, but that's right at the beginning and easy to fast forward through. Realistic sets for war torn France are a plus, mixing with the country folk trying to lead their lives while bombs are going off around them. Fast moving and entertaining, reminding the post war audiences of what still needed to be fought to maintain even though declared war was over, and the continued damage being dealt with overseas.