in what would be his first screenplay and base on his own short story turn about and william faulkner delivers a bizarre story of loyalty and sacrifice and and really strange relationship . the story originally be about only the tone and young and and cooper character and but mgm need to put joan crawford in another picture to fulfill her contract and and faulkner oblige by create a female role . crawford insist that her line be write in the same clipped style a her co star young and tone and lead to much unintentional hilarity a these three communicate in a telegraph like shorthand that sound like a monty python sketch ( wuthering height perform in semaphore ) . seriously and the almost entirely pronoun less sentence make ernest hemingway read like henry james . the film also reflect some familiar faulkner theme and with an almost unnaturally close relationship between brother and sister ( a may be find in his sanctuary and and elsewhere ) . when young proposes to crawford and in tone presence and in lieu of an engagement ring all three exchange their childhood engrave ring with one another . the closeness of tone and young be also noticeable and especially a they go off to their thelma and louise fate . frankly and it creepy . not a creepy to this new yorker and however and a the recur theme of the massive cockroach and wellington and which crawford cheerfully catch ( and which be show gambol over her hand i have to turn away . ) and young turn into a gladiator . blech . that be say and there be some nice performance . young be particularly engage in a scene where he take up in cooper fighter plane and and roscoe karns be delightful a cooper fly buddy . tone and despite his inability to express himself through realistic dialogue and have a nice moment and dash away his own furtive tear over his buddy young fate . crawford and stripped of meaningful dialogue a well and mostly come across a either wooden or melodramatic and which be quite a balancing act for one role . the battle scenes not surprisingly and for a howard hawk film be the most exciting part of the entire picture . but not enough . as far a i be concern and this be 75 minute of my life i be never go to get back .