Second viewing; first viewed between 1983 and 1986.
Life at an Army Base in Hawaii, in 1941, just before the Japanese attack. A newly transferred soldier is the center of sorts of the narrative. He used to be a boxer but has quit after an accident. At his new outfit they will do all they can to make him fight at the interbase championship. Meanwhile, his sergeant has an affair with the captain's wife.
Mostly ridiculous, yet consistently entertaining, melodrama. The proof it is superbly directed is that it relies on a script that sometimes verges on the undirectable. It is multiply miscast, too, and gets away with it as best it could. When Hollywood became too ashamed to continue making "serious" films like this, comedians and parodists substituted openly comical ones for them.
Rating: 57 (unchanged)
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