Reviews

Agnes Von Kurowsky denied up to her dying day that she and "Ernie" had a sexual relationship. Considering his reputation for exaggeration and out and out lying I'll take her word. In his earlier years he was a brilliant writer before alcohol abuse and depression did him in. He was also a liar, braggart, bully, racist, anti-Semite,misogynist and an easy rider who lived off the trust funds of his first two wives, Hadley and Pauline. If he was so Macho and eager for Combat then I guess he would have joined the American Army and volunteered for infantry duty in France instead of driving an ambulance in Italy and being wounded accidentally taking cigarettes and candy to real soldiers on the front lines.

There are a couple of things in this movie that just defy belief. If the crooked cops wanted to kill an undercover cop before he got them why would they do it in a public restroom during the day in the middle of one of the busiest train stations in the U.S. instead of waylaying him at night in a deserted spot? Why wouldn't Book contact either Internal Affairs or the FBI or even someone in the media while he was hiding out in Amish Country instead of just waiting for Glover and company to come get him? After Book was healed and knowing what danger might come to his family if Book stayed there why wouldn't old Eli Lapp show Book the door? The scenery and acting make this a very good movie but the plot has too many holes.