Other than the end and Pat Boone's rendition of Love Letters in the Sand, this film was rather ridiculous.
Dick Sargent, of all people, is a teenager threatened with not graduating, unless he can pass his finals. Only in Hollywood style, Sargent passes. Giving over his girlfriend so that he could cram in 2 weeks to the brother of Pat Boone, leads to James Drury, an army person, falling for Terry Moore. This riles Sargent so he joins the army and surprisingly the film becomes somewhat poignant in the end, when Sargent, on leave, returns much more mature and reunites with the friends he had left behind.
Some real old-timers were in the movie. Ernestine Wade, Sapphire in Amos and Andy, appears as a maid as well as Janet Gaynor as Sargent's mom. She is in another world until her son signs up for the army and she speaks the truth. Dean Jagger is along for the ride as her gentleman friend. Natalie Schafer, as Boone's mother, once again shows that she had a niche in portraying upscale women.
The casts also boasted Isabel Jewell, who always got the small roles in the 1930s and 1940s. Remember her as the condemned seamstress in 1935's "A Tale of 2 Cities?"
Finally, Carole Ann Campbell appears as Christine. You could never forget her as Lillian Roth, in her childhood years, 2 years before,in the phenomenal "I'll Cry Tomorrow." Whatever happened to her?
I guess the film shows that the army makes men and that Pat Boone always didn't have to portray a saint.
Dick Sargent, of all people, is a teenager threatened with not graduating, unless he can pass his finals. Only in Hollywood style, Sargent passes. Giving over his girlfriend so that he could cram in 2 weeks to the brother of Pat Boone, leads to James Drury, an army person, falling for Terry Moore. This riles Sargent so he joins the army and surprisingly the film becomes somewhat poignant in the end, when Sargent, on leave, returns much more mature and reunites with the friends he had left behind.
Some real old-timers were in the movie. Ernestine Wade, Sapphire in Amos and Andy, appears as a maid as well as Janet Gaynor as Sargent's mom. She is in another world until her son signs up for the army and she speaks the truth. Dean Jagger is along for the ride as her gentleman friend. Natalie Schafer, as Boone's mother, once again shows that she had a niche in portraying upscale women.
The casts also boasted Isabel Jewell, who always got the small roles in the 1930s and 1940s. Remember her as the condemned seamstress in 1935's "A Tale of 2 Cities?"
Finally, Carole Ann Campbell appears as Christine. You could never forget her as Lillian Roth, in her childhood years, 2 years before,in the phenomenal "I'll Cry Tomorrow." Whatever happened to her?
I guess the film shows that the army makes men and that Pat Boone always didn't have to portray a saint.