It's hard to find fault with these propaganda intended war films outside of predictable plotlines, by the numbers leading characters and typical endings to fill the heart with patriotism. The plusses here humorous supporting players and top notch battle scenes, set a world war before the one raging when this was made.
Unless you were a mega star contract player, you couldn't avoid ending up in a B film, and war jobs were plenty for contract player actors who passed muster with the front office. For James Ellison, Jane Wyatt and Kent Taylor, a film like this was a routine couple of weeks at the studio, and they get to play characters that audiences during the second world war could cheer on.
A surgical doctor, general practitioner and a pilot involved in a triangle during the first world war, and just as filled with patriotism as the one being fought then. There's comic players Roscoe Karns and George Cleveland, a Christmas behind the lines, lots of bombs going off, and plenty of pathos. I couldn't hate this film if I tried because of the way it made me feel about my country at a time before I was born. Everyone pulls together and brings it home, but as a very short film, there's not enough time to really give the detail it would require to make a major impact. War audiences probably forgot about it by the following weekend when another similar B film came out.
Unless you were a mega star contract player, you couldn't avoid ending up in a B film, and war jobs were plenty for contract player actors who passed muster with the front office. For James Ellison, Jane Wyatt and Kent Taylor, a film like this was a routine couple of weeks at the studio, and they get to play characters that audiences during the second world war could cheer on.
A surgical doctor, general practitioner and a pilot involved in a triangle during the first world war, and just as filled with patriotism as the one being fought then. There's comic players Roscoe Karns and George Cleveland, a Christmas behind the lines, lots of bombs going off, and plenty of pathos. I couldn't hate this film if I tried because of the way it made me feel about my country at a time before I was born. Everyone pulls together and brings it home, but as a very short film, there's not enough time to really give the detail it would require to make a major impact. War audiences probably forgot about it by the following weekend when another similar B film came out.