An interesting film as much for what it isn't as what it is. Not a romantic affair between Gregory Peckery and Angie Dickinson, not a story about how cheeky orderly Tony Curtis become a great psychotherapist. More a drama than a comedy (in fact you could excise all the Curtis story without hurting the film, helping it by reducing its overlength) focusing on the trauma of damaged servicemen, including Eddie Albert, Robert Duvall and Bobby Darin (Oscar nominated, I guess as much for painful sodium pentathol scene as anything). Duvall's wife is Bethal Leslie and the camp CO is James Gregory.
Shot by Russell Metty (thus giving it a superior patina) at Universal, when there still was one.
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