The cinema industry brings many times court-martial trials, the most impressive were THE COURT-MARTIAL OF BILLY MITCHELL, THE EXECUTION OF PRIVATE SLOVIK and the still unmatched Humphrey Bogart's THE CAINE MUTINY, this specific-thematic picture starred by Robert Mitchum already starts with an unsolved concept, a kind of stillbirth feature whereby I'll trying explain bellow.
When the bloody WWII is going to the end at Europe after the allied forces landing at Normandy, meanwhile in India the long-lasting friendlies British and American enter in clash due a fateful occurrence took place there between two officers of both sides which led with a cold blood murder of a British commander, it triggers a uprising of Britishers who demands a hard punishment of the self-confessed Lieut. Winston (Keenan Wynn), then came up a kind of prearranged trial aiming for pacify the flaming environment.
It at first glance sounds contradictory due the American side choose a wrong man Mitchum to accomplish the task, that actually wasn't asked openly for him, even implied neither, although the destiny of Lieut. Winston was doomed already in behalf of good coexistence of confreres, in this hot atmosphere the picture unfolds with many mismatches carried out by a lame screenplay, therefore it somewhat was undermined by this flaws, nonetheless it gave to us an unprecedent performance by Keenan Wynn ever!!
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First watch: 2024 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.25.
