For the first few minutes i thought this might be good but during the landing i knew it was just gonna be a wreck.......i even kept watching while cornel wilde held his .45 like an ice cream cone.......constantly......i've never seen a handgun held that way except by a small child......it is just sad with all the money he must have spent on this it is just incredible that everyone who hated this movie was absolutely correct..........i was gonna keep watching so i could see the goof with the guys running around in the background in blue jeans and sneakers but i couldn't stand the awful dialogue, the terrible direction, the goofy narration and the us marines portrayed as girl scouts any longer so i'll never know or care how it ends..........i did get to the plastic spoon used for the canned bean eating though........that was funny......1945....white plastic spoon.....ha!.......i actually have my uncles 3 utensil METAL cutlery set he used in the pacific......the kind that fits together and slides apart while in use.......i also enjoyed whenever an actor was going to shoot a weapon in a number of scenes and the gun didn't or wouldn't fire when in the context of the scene it was clearly supposed to...........and i'm sure they said we'll just leave it in because it looks real when in actuality the actor made no effort to "clear" or un-jam the thing as would a real marine......it just looked so stupid..........something that should have been re-shot or left on the cutting room floor.
All in all, just a waste of time..........a real boring, kind of weird stinker and probably the reason wilde only directed two more films after this.
All in all, just a waste of time..........a real boring, kind of weird stinker and probably the reason wilde only directed two more films after this.