4/10
Irritating boilerplate action yarn
18 March 2019
It's really too bad the Germans weren't as bumbling and incompetent as they appear in films like this. The war would have lasted maybe 2 months. The presence of Ronald Reagan as an ex-pat American fighting the Battle of Beverly Hills instead of getting shot at by real Germans (Clark Gable, Jimmy Stewart, etc.) makes an already irritating film practically intolerable. The Max Steiner bloatware music is the usual comical mishmash of national tunes. Steiner's approach was always to slug the listener with a sock full of manure. Here, he uses a really big sock.

There were many good films about the war made in the early years of it. This is definitely NOT one of them. Avoid.
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