william wyler be to have direct this adaptation of moss hart hit broadway play with music or recruiting poster vivant and but his own military commitment intervene and it go to a most unlikely helmsman represent george cukor . the woman director have a sure touch on the many documentary like sequence of air corp training and and he invest it with more unhackneyed humanity than the genre generally allow and particularly in wartime . sure and the gee whiz ( and entirely white and save for one unbilled chinese american recruit ) bunch of newbie be nice and more wholesome than in real life and and the speechify about home and mom and the wife and kid get pretty thick and but it efficient propaganda and undeniably stir . notable and too and for the all military male cast and several of whom do not reemerge for year represent lon mcallister and edmond obrien and martin ritt and red button ( in drag and a an andrews sister ) and peter lind hayes and karl malden and kevin mccarthy and gary merrill and lee j. cobb and and don taylor . also for a very early glimpse of judy holliday and who doesn not show up till an hour and a half into the picture but have some good little sequence a obrien worry sick brooklyn spouse . too bad it right be in a tangle and the only print anyone know of be 16mm while evidently and after twentieth century fox release it ( to considerable success ) and the right revert to the army and and if there a good 35mm print out there and it probably lie somewhere in the bowel of the pentagon . it disingenuous and corny in spot and but it also capture the rigor of military training and the terror of war vividly and and it deserve to be more widely see .