Review of Wing and a Prayer

Yet another Boy's Own Paper take on the war in the Pacific. Although there are several candidates - Don Ameche, William Eythe, Dana Andrews, Charles Bickford - for leading man the footage is fairly equally divided between all of them with the exception of Cedric Harwicke who gets equal billing with the others for what amounts to no more than two minutes screen time in a Prologue. Having clearly drawn the short straw Don Ameche gets to play the heavy - in this case the Naval Commander/martinet who in playing it by the book comes into conflict (natch) with Dana Andrews. Andrews would be on the losing end again about six years later when he crossed swords with Richard Widmark in The Frogmen. The acting is more or less up to snuff and we get early glimpses of B.S. Pulley and Richard Jaeckel, apart from that it's run-of-the-mill.