Holly's eyeballs go into left-to-right overdrive as he stares at Denise's buxom rear end descending a flight of stairs. Denise Darcel comes as a welcome relief of feminine pleasure not out of place in the town of Bastogne itself. But Fowley's dentures turn into a class act clicking away to the old song, "I Surrender Dear," through the courtesy of a German propaganda broadcast heard over the radio in a Sherman tank. Kippton seems to be the best in the squad at bellyaching.Maybe it's his dentures that make him a sourpuss. Stazak hopes of going home are dashed because his authorised documents have not come through before the squad moves up front. The squad members talk of an enjoyable furlough in Paris which is suddenly cut short by the German breakthrough in the Ardenne. Kinnie is drilling the squad in the opening scenes. Stazak, the rest of the cast were character-type actors who filled their roles perfectly. Holly who was high profile on the Metro lot in his time, and George Murphy as Pvt. With the exception of Van Johnson as Pvt.
And Metro's Culver City was turned into the only outdoor location for the snow-covered, rubble-strewn town of Bastogne under siege, which was tenaciously held by the 101st, under the command of Brig. It's hard to believe that this film was not shot on location but on a Metro sound stage. What it lacks in size and scope it makes up for in impact.A simple story very well told, of a squad of GI's of the 101st Airborne Division, thrown into the maelstrom that was the German offensive in the Ardennes in December of 1944 against the Allied ground forces. It's just an ordinary black and white M.G.M. This says more about The Battle of the Bulge than the movie of the same name. No thousands of extras, no wide panoramic sweep of battle scenes. This is not a large scale multi-million dollar epic of World War Two. I Company: In nineteen hundred and seventy-four! Kinnie: But you won't get home 'til the end of the war. I Company: He'll keep her happy till I get out!
Kinnie: You ain't got nothing to worry about. I Company: Who works so hard to keep up morale! Kinnie: Your baby was lonely - as lonely as could be. Kinnie: Your Baby was there when you left. Kinnie: You had a good home but you left. Kinnie: All right, come on! Come on! What do you want these guys to think, you're a bunch of WACs? Alright, alright pick it up now. Holley: Hey, Kinnie - what ever happened to Jody?
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