No, it does not have the acclaim of "The Best Years of Our Lives". What it does have are marvelously understated performances by Guy Madison and Dorothy Maguire, and a luminous supporting role for a young Robert Mitchum. This movie recreates the postwar world in a very hypnotic and appealing way;- a place where life was ceremonious, and gallantry and loyalty were the norm. In the deathless words inscribed on the Iwo Jima monument, "Uncommon Valor was a Common Virtue".
We shall not see their like again. Open a fine bottle of wine, lean back on your sofa, and drift back...
We shall not see their like again. Open a fine bottle of wine, lean back on your sofa, and drift back...