Unfortunately, Jeff Chandler was already dead when the film hit the theaters. This was the culmination of a good career and I think he was getting better as he went along. This is an extraordinarily good film and came out more or less at the end of the great war film making era of the 40's and 50's. I think the public was tired of war films by the early 60's and so Hollywood cut way back on making them. There had been the war and then countless war films right afterward, so perhaps the public was just ready to move on from war. The US was barely involved in Vietnam as far as the public knew, so that couldn't be the cause for the apathy towards war films. At any rate, Hollywood tossed out one of the best in this film. It is a true film classic, a true story (more or less) and one that should be seen by any war film buff!
Review of Merrill's Marauders
