Do you think a hardened battle experienced calvary trooper, played by Charles Bronson, could lose a fight to a brand new second lieutenant? I couldn't. This should have been a good film. The supporting cast had great character actors like Arthur O'Connell and Slim Pickens. Richard Boone was the lead as Captain Maddocks. But these three were shoved off by the poor performances of a pre-tan George Hamilton, pre-Peyton Place James Douglas, and pre heart-throb Dr. Kildare Richard Chamberlain. Then there was the Casablanca plot borrowing of all of the undermanned army forts in the West, Hamilton's East Coast girlfriend would have preceded him to his assignment as the fiancee of another officer of the fort. I can't even recommend watching this if you like watching train wrecks. This film just sinks to bottom weighed down by some of the worst acting ever put on on the screen by a major studio that invested in a usually good writer and a decent director.
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