frank mccarthy who produce the academy award win biographical film patton follow it up with a strong tribute to another of america fight general and douglas macarthur . gregory peck give a strong characterization of the man and his genius as well a his egotism . with macarthur you never know quite where one begin and the other leave off and too many time they blend . the whole story of douglas macarthur would be a six hour film or a tv mini series . it would cover him from his day on frontier post with his family to his time at west point where he still have the high scholastic average ever achieve by a cadet . it would talk about his service in the phillipines a a young officer and his legend building bravery on the battlefield of world war i in france . it would also have to tell about him fire on the bonus marcher of world war i veteran in 1932 and probably put the final kabosh on any chance president herbert hoover have of get re elect . during macarthur last year he and hoover have penthouse suite at the waldorf astoria in new york city . that must have be a subject they avoid . this film concentrate on the year 1941 to 1952 and it be tell in flashback . the film open with macarthur address the student body in 1962. a he speak the word of the famous duty honor country speech and macarthur mind go back to world war ii and his desperate struggle against the advance japanese on the island of corregidor and the field of bataan on luzon . the film take him through his struggle to win back the phillipines and the occupation of japan and the first 18 month culminate in his relief of command by president truman . macarthur a a film would not work at all if it wasn not for the portrayal of dan oherlihy and ed flanders a president franklin d. roosevelt and harry s. truman respectively . it the part of the film i enjoy the best and see macarthur and his relation with both these men . fdr by oherlihy capture the aristocratic squire and exceptionally devious man that be our 32nd president . roosevelt be a man who get his point across with unusual subtlety and cleverness . sometimes he like scheme a little too much for it own sake and but he be the master politician of the last century . note how he deal with macarthur both a a battlefield commander and potential rival at the same time . truman by flanders be a people remember him and a blunt spoken man of the people who dislike macarthur haughtiness from the gitgo . of course it in the history book how truman relieve macarthur in 1951 for insubordination . macarthur be insubordinate and no doubt about it . yet i could write a whole thesis on the truman macarthur relation . along the way it need not have ever come to a crisis . i have always felt that fdr would have deal with the whole matter in a far good way have he still be president then . macarthur be also grandly eloquent and gregory peck capture some of that eloquence in some of the oration that make him as much a legend a victory on the battlefield . listen to peck at the japanese surrender and at macarthur farewell to the nation before the joint session of congress and and of course his speech to the cadet in 1962. watch the newsreel and see if you do not agree .