this films preaches and and how and that if you sacrifice your child a cannon fodder and no matter how strong your entirely reasonable native instinct against do so and your seduce spouse will continue to be able to wallow in mink coat and so long a you burn the only evidence refute her a the property of a munition monger . all the glowing praise for the histrionic performance in the other review here ignore the message force feed a war weary population who know well at the time and however much their heir have forget and that european war and if not all war and be nothing but procurement profiteering by peerage and the scenario present so gushingly positive in this poisonous treacle . this mainstream filth open with a celebration of armistice in a chemical munition plant corporate headquarters . that ten of thousand of u. s. soldier die or be maim in wwi from such lucrative insanity and not least because such munition never yield victory and only battlefront stalemate by temporarily deny enemy troop dispute territory and be laud ever so abstractly a contribution of the homefront . urge parent to rush underage child to the fray be the closing message and a necessary strategic goal in the late stage of wwii when this recruitment vehicle be release in 1946. there be nothing redeem about this cinematic crime against democratic u. s. citizenry . orson welles prostitute himself as grandly a ever and and the remain caste be never more than complacent geisha careerist . thank fate for the 1970s when hollywood finally get a social conscience that have yet to be fully inter for the sake of the interest of the national security state myth .