John Farrow admits at the end when they started shooting this film they didn’t have a script – and to be honest you can tell. It’s part war character study (getting over the war by enrolling in West Point), part amnesiac mystery (did Alan Ladd kill his best friend in Africa?), part tribute to West Point, part Few Good Men-type look at a cadet who claims to be bullied. Had they fixed on one thing they might have come up with something decent. But you know Ladd isn't going to be a coward, and that West Point is going to ultimately be shown to be a Good Thing.
Most interesting thing for me was hearing John Farrow talk at end – you could hear the Australian in his voice, but it’s not really an Aussie accent, more mid-Pacific/mid Atlantic. Ladd mentions that Farrow had directed him more than anyone else at that stage in his career.
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