A guilt-riddled gunnery sergeant takes a bunch of soldiers out of the brig for a mission during the Korean War. Along the way they run into a nun and schoolgirls and take them along.
This may look like a dry run for THE DIRTY DOZEN out of HEAVEN KNOWS MR. ALLISON, but it fails to measure up to anything interesting. It's a cheaply produced movie and the characters are sketchy caricatures with nothing interesting in the dialogue. Jerry Fielding's score is intrusive and annoying and cinematographer Paul Ivano's camera-work is competent. Anna Sten plays the nun in her last screen role and Robert Weber plays the sergeant in a one-note performance. While it is clear that the behind-the-camera talent were trying to make a story about redemption, they don't.
This may look like a dry run for THE DIRTY DOZEN out of HEAVEN KNOWS MR. ALLISON, but it fails to measure up to anything interesting. It's a cheaply produced movie and the characters are sketchy caricatures with nothing interesting in the dialogue. Jerry Fielding's score is intrusive and annoying and cinematographer Paul Ivano's camera-work is competent. Anna Sten plays the nun in her last screen role and Robert Weber plays the sergeant in a one-note performance. While it is clear that the behind-the-camera talent were trying to make a story about redemption, they don't.