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I have been treated kindly by girlfriends and their families - quite a contrast to this - but have too often been a real self-centered jerk.

The film's protagonists would have been considered the same by her family.

In my own first instance, the girl was of a Swedish-Danish and very LCA Lutheran family who had their own cultural community too, at least back then. We were each other's first loves - the Garden of Eden. And Summer 1965 - there's a song about it - she put me back together again with her love after a very rough 7 months at the Military Academy.

Coming back from being a draftee in 1969, I had the GI Bill among other financial supports and took out 40+ girls in college. Like David in the film, I am or grew up Presbyterian, and 2 of the girls were Jewish. One who was very kind to me reminds me strongly of Sarah in the film, and she broke us off - basically for me being jerk - by poisoning me with a banana cake shake with chocolate syrup - which had digestive effects - from her dad's Baskin&Robbins ice cream shop, she laughing if guiltily sat by my bed while I suffered, then to take her home.

The second girl's family had fled Vienna, and it was always tense. Finally, she said she had given a lady who was a handwriting expert - many of those in Vienna - and friend of her MOTHER a sample of my handwriting, and the friend said I was dangerous, so good-bye. Later, although she was now at a different college, she inexplicably showed up in one of my classes with a kid in tow who looked Jewish, but we said nothing. She was like me an eldest child and very much like her dominant mother, so I don't think it would have worked out anyway.

I eventually married a very compliant girl in my younger sister's class who was in my mom's Sunday school class and whom back when I was 13 and she 8 I had first met and thought to myself would be my wife - the only girl I thought that about.

Since he was flying and fighting and wounded in their defense, you would think Sarah's family would have made an exception.

As well, and the film could have included this, what if she had gotten pregnant giving herself to him? (The Scandinavian-American girl told me that there was one moment she knew I would be the one she would give herself to.) Sarah told him not to worry about her, but what did happen to her then?

It has been claimed to be a goof, because the one? Fighter plane shown was a late model of our P-51 Mustang which wasn't used by the British in North Africa in 1942, but North American designed/created the plane in response to Britain's request, and our own USAAF flew it first as the A-36 in the Mediterranean theater in 1943.

This was a very Jewish, pre-Israel, and pro-Israel film - Tom didn't exactly pass as a Montana Presbyterian :-) - and after the Gaza horror of today I have no more sympathy for Israel, Israelis, or Israel supporters, but as a love story - in her case a first love story - it was very evocative and brought back strong memories and feelings.

I didn't want to like it, but had to.

This is a very good, beautiful film. Others have noted how Native (North) American customs are respected, as both Cree and white Inspector MacDonald try to find a common thread of law and fair justice.

Others have noticed the standout performances of the often unintentionally humorous Thomas Gomez's mixed-heritage, reluctant scout and guide and of Stuart Randall as the Cree high chief.

Medicine man Frank DeKova would later star as Chief Wild Eagle in TV's wonderful too-brief F Troop.

Cameron Mitchell plays the war chief bad guy well ... and very actively.

But the ethos remains: one man in a red uniform going out alone to see that justice prevails, fairly.

It reflects very well on the Mounties and Canada.