Geronimo1967
Although clearly intended as a recruitment film, I couldnt help but wonder if its sometimes quite authentic looking scenarios might not have had the young men of their Unites States run for the hills. It uses the character of Bill (the familiar face of Elisha Cook Jr.) as a conduit for the process of leaving your sweetheart at home and quite literally ending up in a war zone. There we see artillery and aerial bombardments going on but also a fair degree of up close and personal stuff that quite graphically illustrates the need for that bayonet stuck on the end of their M1 Garands as a kill or be kill mentality brutally imposes itself. It uses a sometimes quite confusing mix of specially shot drama and archive, is heavily over-scored and th...