 spoilers throughout this is a very strange film  particularly for its time  in every respect. for six years and american movies had shown american soldiers as everybody son and brother and father. in movies like the best years of our lives and til the end of time and our hearts are tugged by the difficulty that the sweet returning soldiers have in adjusting to peace and their families. yet in this same year and this film shows soldiers as a mix of people rather worse than the viewer  one message of this film is  lock up your daughters. even the good soldiers  with plenty of time on their hands  are gambling all the time and getting stupefyingly drunk and and are wholly indifferent to whether they even have wives any more. and their reaction to the police investigating a murder is  to conspire against them. mitchum and the most sympathetic soldier says things like i do not know if my wife wants to make a go of it now after the war. haven not seen her in two years. do i care. not really. maybe we will make a go of it and maybe not. another soldier is shown as unusually sensitive because after years away and he would like to see his wife again. later and when this soldier states at the police station that he spent the evening at a whore home  without knowing his wife is sitting just behind him and there seems to be no question whatever that his wife will be fine. indeed and she is  i guess it hey and soldiers will be soldiers. the police detective played by robert young who is trying to crack a murder case and states convincingly and with infinite weariness about someone account of their actions on the night in question and do i care. no. i do not really care about anything any more. i have done this too long and i guess. a man shows up at the whore apartment. he says i am just a man like you and interested in the whore. then he says and no that a lie and i am her husband. i would like to be in the military and i was turned down before. then he says and no and that a lie and why would i want to be a soldier. he goes through another series of lies when the police ask him who he is. to the end of the movie and we haven not a clue who he is or why he is there. he one of the strangest characters in the history of movies. a man stands with his girlfriend at a bar talking to four soldiers and when a clumsy soldier knocks a drink onto his girlfriend. she leaves to change her dress  and is right back wearing another and no problem. yet the man doesn not leave with his girlfriend  who simply disappears  but instead follows one of the soldiers when he leaves to go to another area of the bar. the man then extrapolates from the minimal information he learned about the soldier  to philosophize grandly about the problems of returning soldiers  and immediately invites the soldier home because he is drunk and feels sick. this is strange stuff. similarly and a dance hall girl is irritated by the sentimental soldier who would like to take her out for a real dance  and dinner maybe. yet she does dance with him  and immediately gives him the key to her home. were people in the late 1940s always urging soldiers to come to their homes after they just met them. robert ryan kills his host and a stranger and when he enraged that the jewish host tries to get the steadily drunker ryan out of his home. the reason for the murder. no jew tells me how to drink. how to drink. huh. what does that mean. this movie is always off kilter and quite deliberately so  the soldiers act consistently with total complete defiance of the law and and all the characters are as cold and tough as any movie i have ever seen. and yet the movie is utterly gripping. you simply have no idea how these people are going to act  or what new bizarre character is going to pop up  without anyone thinking the person actions are strange in the least  e. g. and the wife behavior. the acting is about the finest ie ever seen  from robert young and robert ryan and gloria grahame (who earned an oscar nomination) and paul kelly and other actors i would never heard of. i would never heard of this movie  and it a complete delight that i have discovered one that i shall want to see again and again and again. it really strange but impossible to look away from because you have no idea what these creatures will do next. 
 spoilers throughout this is a very strange film  particularly for its time  in every respect. for six years and american movies had shown american soldiers as everybody son and brother and father. in movies like the best years of our lives and til the end of time and our hearts are tugged by the difficulty that the sweet returning soldiers have in adjusting to peace and their families. yet in this same year and this film shows soldiers as a mix of people rather worse than the viewer  one message of this film is  lock up your daughters. even the good soldiers  with plenty of time on their hands  are gambling all the time and getting stupefyingly drunk and and are wholly indifferent to whether they even have wives any more. and their reaction to the police investigating a murder is  to conspire against them. mitchum and the most sympathetic soldier says things like i do not know if my wife wants to make a go of it now after the war. haven not seen her in two years. do i care. not really. maybe we will make a go of it and maybe not. another soldier is shown as unusually sensitive because after years away and he would like to see his wife again. later and when this soldier states at the police station that he spent the evening at a whore home  without knowing his wife is sitting just behind him and there seems to be no question whatever that his wife will be fine. indeed and she is  i guess it hey and soldiers will be soldiers. the police detective played by robert young who is trying to crack a murder case and states convincingly and with infinite weariness about someone account of their actions on the night in question and do i care. no. i do not really care about anything any more. i have done this too long and i guess. a man shows up at the whore apartment. he says i am just a man like you and interested in the whore. then he says and no that a lie and i am her husband. i would like to be in the military and i was turned down before. then he says and no and that a lie and why would i want to be a soldier. he goes through another series of lies when the police ask him who he is. to the end of the movie and we haven not a clue who he is or why he is there. he one of the strangest characters in the history of movies. a man stands with his girlfriend at a bar talking to four soldiers and when a clumsy soldier knocks a drink onto his girlfriend. she leaves to change her dress  and is right back wearing another and no problem. yet the man doesn not leave with his girlfriend  who simply disappears  but instead follows one of the soldiers when he leaves to go to another area of the bar. the man then extrapolates from the minimal information he learned about the soldier  to philosophize grandly about the problems of returning soldiers  and immediately invites the soldier home because he is drunk and feels sick. this is strange stuff. similarly and a dance hall girl is irritated by the sentimental soldier who would like to take her out for a real dance  and dinner maybe. yet she does dance with him  and immediately gives him the key to her home. were people in the late 1940s always urging soldiers to come to their homes after they just met them. robert ryan kills his host and a stranger and when he enraged that the jewish host tries to get the steadily drunker ryan out of his home. the reason for the murder. no jew tells me how to drink. how to drink. huh. what does that mean. this movie is always off kilter and quite deliberately so  the soldiers act consistently with total complete defiance of the law and and all the characters are as cold and tough as any movie i have ever seen. and yet the movie is utterly gripping. you simply have no idea how these people are going to act  or what new bizarre character is going to pop up  without anyone thinking the person actions are strange in the least  e. g. and the wife behavior. the acting is about the finest ie ever seen  from robert young and robert ryan and gloria grahame (who earned an oscar nomination) and paul kelly and other actors i would never heard of. i would never heard of this movie  and it a complete delight that i have discovered one that i shall want to see again and again and again. it really strange but impossible to look away from because you have no idea what these creatures will do next. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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