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In 1953, at Fort Bliss, Texas, two former Korean War combat veterans work as drill sergeants and fall in love with the same woman.In 1953, at Fort Bliss, Texas, two former Korean War combat veterans work as drill sergeants and fall in love with the same woman.In 1953, at Fort Bliss, Texas, two former Korean War combat veterans work as drill sergeants and fall in love with the same woman.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 1 nomination total
Iris Adrian
- Mrs. Butterfly
- (scenes deleted)
Acquanetta
- Bar Girl
- (uncredited)
Matilda Caldwell
- Mrs. Hazard
- (uncredited)
Charlita
- Mexican Girl
- (uncredited)
John Close
- Military Policeman
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaAt about 18 minutes into the film while Richard Widmark and Karl Malden's characters are shooting pool there is a sign on the wall that reads: Watch Your Language Single Men Present. A real "sign" of the times.
- GoofsWhen Ryan and Holt have the troops on a training exercise in the field, Ryan tells Holt to "get back to base." The Army doesn't refer to its facilities as bases. An actual soldier would have said "get back to the post."
- Quotes
Sgt. Thorne Ryan: This is your rifle, and not your gun; it's made for shooting, and not for fun!
- ConnectionsReferenced in Killer's Kiss (1955)
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FULL METAL JACKET thirty years before
At least Kubrick's film for its first part; in other words, the best movie ever made about military drills in a boot camp, far better for me than Ridley Scott's GI JANE, just a joke for me. Here, Richard Widmark is simply awesome, though the story could have been far darker, more dramatic, but I think the director Richard Brooks refused the idea to "disgust" the bulk of his audiences with a too gloomy atmosphere. The purpose was to denounce the harsh, brutal, sadistic methods of the US ARMY, or Marine Corps. That's what I got, what I understoood. And I was very amused to discover that, in the late eighties, a commercial for Lucky Strike cigarettes used a man with a face very close to Widmark's one for a sequence taking place precisely in a boot camp, where the sadistic instructor - with Widmark's face - pushes the young soldiers beyond the human resistance limit, showing that they were not lucky, like the cigarette brand.... Not very subtle but that tribute amused me much.
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- $1,166,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 41 minutes
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