There were two good things about this movie: The color was good. The actors did a good job of playing their parts. But after that, it was a horrible film.
John Payne plays an unmitigated jerk who at the end of the film rejects the Marine Corps AND the woman he's been harassing - although inexplicably he is shown with her on the transport at the last scene?!?! She's happy to be with him even though he had rejected her for a socialite and a cushy Washington job??
The movie should be rated R for it's depiction of unbelievable sexual harassment which results in the jerk ultimately getting his girl. Am I to infer that if I think I'm good looking and I overpower a protesting woman who has repeatedly said "no" that I will be proven to be a woman-winning Casanova in the end? Shameful!
A recruit takes over the training of the platoon on the say so of the drill instructor? And this recruit gets this chance because he claims the drill instructor is too harsh? Then this recruit succeeds because he beats up the members of the platoon displaying precisely the behavior he criticised? How inconsistent is that?
A list of the unmilitary situations in this film would fill an encyclopedia. Right down to the last little details, the film is ridiculous. The nurses ship out with the troops? Give me a break!
The movie should be rated R for it's depiction of unbelievable sexual harassment which results in the jerk ultimately getting his girl. Am I to infer that if I think I'm good looking and I overpower a protesting woman who has repeatedly said "no" that I will be proven to be a woman-winning Casanova in the end? Shameful!
A recruit takes over the training of the platoon on the say so of the drill instructor? And this recruit gets this chance because he claims the drill instructor is too harsh? Then this recruit succeeds because he beats up the members of the platoon displaying precisely the behavior he criticised? How inconsistent is that?
A list of the unmilitary situations in this film would fill an encyclopedia. Right down to the last little details, the film is ridiculous. The nurses ship out with the troops? Give me a break!