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www.sover.net - : It captures the authentic feel of the army base, but the movie looks like a '50s TV sitcom. The film never makes up its mind if it wants to be a comedy or a sentimental melodrama as its whimsical story revolves around two unlikely army buddies, the swinging Master Sergeant Maxwell Slaughter (Jackie Gleason) and the more ambitious Sergeant Eustis Clay (Steve McQueen). Gleason is content to be an army lifer and milk the security of being in a peacetime army, while McQueen is looking to leave and go into business to make a pile of dough. McQueen idolizes Gleason because he's such a smooth operator and seems to have made an art of how to live the good life in the military. Tony Bill plays the bumbling Private First Class Jerry Meltzer, who gives the film the trappings of a comedy. more...
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