A sleeper. This has been overlooked in film buffdom by The Last Detail by the same writer - it's a similar ish look at life in the peacetime Navy among the lower ranks, people who shlep along. This is a romance between James Caan and prostitute Marsha Mason. Mason is quite racy here going topless and what not - this seemed to launch her as a star but she took time off and then got pigeon holed as a Neil Simon specialist.
This is long - it ambles, goes for over two hours. But it's effective. When they introduced the baby my heart sunk because I got the feeling they'd kill off the kid and I was right. Still, powerful and good obstacle.
My favourite bits were the inane chats the sailors had. This felt so true. As did Eli Wallach's ageing veteran unable to do anything else, and the medical stuff ups, and the red tape.
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