Dir: Robert Wise | Cast: Burt Lancaster, Clark Gable, Brad Dexter | US Drama
Over the years Robert Wise has shown a bewildering versatility, and occasionally tried his hand at war movies, a genre in which you might even include ‘The Sound of Music’.
This particular example has been pejoratively labelled ‘Run Noisy, Run Shallow’, but Wise’s experienced editing keeps things moving despite the confined setting.
Clark Gable and Burt Lancaster – the latter working for his own production company – make an unlikely team and as usual spend more time fighting among themselves rather the Japanese. While Russell Harlan does a good job photographing what must be every cameraman’s worst nightmare. @RichardChatten
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