I love it when a movie surprises me. I went into this one expecting a kind of comedic doctor film and instead I got a surprisingly well main drama with a decent sprinkling of comedic bits.
Are good friend Gregory Peck returns this time as the head doctor at a psychiatric ward in the middle of Arizona desert at the time currently in the possession of the United States military.
I've gotta say I'm impressed by the lack of forced drama. Usually in asylum based films, there's always that extra amount of suspense or unnecessary tension between the main actor and a bunch of the other doctors or some sort of lab committee. But they don't do that here, it's just the drama of the actual patients as they attempt to be cured from their mental ailments. Of course if you ask me the only people who are sane in the army are the ones that go nuts. Anybody that can keep their head on straight while bombs are bursting around their head with their best friends dying at their feet are truly the most insane people of all.
But then that's the whole point of the army isn't it, it can train you to go against even your mouse base instinct.
The Supporting Cast is great to, rather it be Tony Curtis who's comedic Talent is freaking phenomenal or James Gregory who pulls off playing an absolute Nutter General.
I've come to the conclusion that Robert Duvall has anti-aging, he looks older in this movie then he dose in anything he'll be in the next 20 years.
Are good friend Gregory Peck returns this time as the head doctor at a psychiatric ward in the middle of Arizona desert at the time currently in the possession of the United States military.
I've gotta say I'm impressed by the lack of forced drama. Usually in asylum based films, there's always that extra amount of suspense or unnecessary tension between the main actor and a bunch of the other doctors or some sort of lab committee. But they don't do that here, it's just the drama of the actual patients as they attempt to be cured from their mental ailments. Of course if you ask me the only people who are sane in the army are the ones that go nuts. Anybody that can keep their head on straight while bombs are bursting around their head with their best friends dying at their feet are truly the most insane people of all.
But then that's the whole point of the army isn't it, it can train you to go against even your mouse base instinct.
The Supporting Cast is great to, rather it be Tony Curtis who's comedic Talent is freaking phenomenal or James Gregory who pulls off playing an absolute Nutter General.
I've come to the conclusion that Robert Duvall has anti-aging, he looks older in this movie then he dose in anything he'll be in the next 20 years.
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