crudram

So, this Colonel, he's so desperate to make this young army wife his mistress, he'll go to any lengths, stealing insurance details, altering her husbands schedules, running down innocent corporals. Right. The bounds of reality are stretched so far you end up not caring by the end. The final showdown is weak as the power crazed Colonel Case decides to storm a nuclear bunker on his own. The dozen or so Military Policeman around him unable/unwilling to stop him despite the fact he has cold blooded murder on his mind.

Made for TV all over and only really rescued by a decent performance by Courtney Thorne-Smith as the object of the Colonel's desire.

A tale of youthful lust, against a backdrop of the Suez crisis and national service. Interspersed with some great music of the era, which, for some reason the cast just start singing along to. Seems silly, and it is, but it works, and adds the right touch to the storyline, reflecting all those times when you wish life was a musical.

This is the only film I have ever recorded off TV and kept. Kept even after moving house a half dozen times, kept even when I've not got a blank tape anywhere in the house to record something on.

This is a big movie. Big stars, big shots, big script. Anything dealing with D-day has to be. And though it is gung-ho in places, you still get to see the truth behind the invasion of France by the allies: it was almost lost on the first day. It cost lives. People died. And that, for me, makes it a war film which puts it all in perspective.