Unlike a certain IMDb editor who left a witheringly inaccurate impression of this episode, I must say it was wonderfully written and acted, without bathos or undue sentimentality. Fantastic performances, especially from Catherine Bell as a pert and charming young nurse who makes the ultimate sacrifice and Isabella Hofmann as her superior, an embittered nursing matron. The cast plays different roles with different names but are as smooth and comfortable and great as always.
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A workmanlike tribute to the WW2 hospital ships
hindsonevansmike27 August 2018
The JAG actors have a chance to "play someone else" - characters involved in (and around) the US landings on Iwo Jima in the Pacific in 1945.
There are some realistic scenes of wartime damage and the script hangs together quite well, starting in the Arlington National Cemetery in the "present day" (2003!) and then looping back to 1945 as an older man tells his story to a young woman who, even 18 months after the USA suffered the shock of the attacks of Tuesday 11/Sep/2001, seems blissfully unaware of her country's previous wartime history.
Some of the make-up is perfect, some is a little "dodgy", but the cast are able to act their little hearts out and the story is well-told.
The final scene posts a conundrum; if the nurse character beloved by the (now elderly) Marine died on the hospital ship, how come his grand-daughter looks just like Karri Turner (when he had obviously married someone else post-WWII to raise a post-war family)? Hey, it's Hollywood!
This was definitely and enjoyably a JAG episode in the "uplifting and heart-warming" category.
There are some realistic scenes of wartime damage and the script hangs together quite well, starting in the Arlington National Cemetery in the "present day" (2003!) and then looping back to 1945 as an older man tells his story to a young woman who, even 18 months after the USA suffered the shock of the attacks of Tuesday 11/Sep/2001, seems blissfully unaware of her country's previous wartime history.
Some of the make-up is perfect, some is a little "dodgy", but the cast are able to act their little hearts out and the story is well-told.
The final scene posts a conundrum; if the nurse character beloved by the (now elderly) Marine died on the hospital ship, how come his grand-daughter looks just like Karri Turner (when he had obviously married someone else post-WWII to raise a post-war family)? Hey, it's Hollywood!
This was definitely and enjoyably a JAG episode in the "uplifting and heart-warming" category.
a very laughable piece of garbage
sandcrab27710 April 2019
The writers of this series are devoid of original ideas and have dredged up ww2 hospital ship logs to produce yet another piece of crappola ... this show is so far off the planet it should have been named escape to pluto ...really pathetic ..but i'll give great credit to usn nurses during ww2
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