sandwich in between san francisco and captain courageous two of spencer tracy great part be this very curious film about war and the effect it have on some people . they give him a gun star spencer tracy and franchot tone in the only film they ever make together and gladys george a the woman who love them both . tracy and tone be a couple of world war i draftee and tone be a weak character who almost go over the hill in boot camp and but tracy stop him . tracy be still play the lovable blowhard and young wallace beery type that mgm envision for him when they sign him away from fox . over at the front tone get an opportunity and take it when during a fight he manage to get to a church tower that peer down on a german machine gun nest . he learn to shoot by now and he do a sergeant york . but alvin c. york be never change by the war the way tone have . wound in the fight tone convalesces at a hospital with gladys george look out for him . tracy go awol himself to visit his pal and he and george get something go . later on when tracy be report miss in action and tone and george marry . tracy brokenhearted when he come back and learns of the marriage and but take sit in stride . the rest of the film be deal with tone apply the the wartime skills he learn to the gangster trade . he a hit man now and george doesn not really know what he do for a living . i think you can figure the rest out . the part of the film that give me some trouble be that i can not believe gladys george couldn not figure it out . she a street smart girl and her part be very much like the one she play in the roaring twenty opposite james cagney . speaking of the roaring twenty and humphrey bogart character development there be similar to tone although he be not the central character of the movie . in fact there be element of they give him a gun that be to be find in taxi driver and in clint eastwood classic and the unforgiven . the world war i battle sequence be very well stag by director woody van dyke . for some reason leonard maltin pan this film and i think it a lot good than he give it credit .