Review by GNantes

One of the most impressive aspects of the film are the scenes showing the deployment of the army: the endless lines of soldiers and vehicles flown over by the protection of planes. The battlefield scenes after two hours are acceptable although unrealistic in their performances. Everything else is a failed romance sprinkled with candid humor. It is also true that there are shots of extraordinary elegance (for example, the hospital where badly injured troops convalesce) and good timing. Unfortunately, in the sum of its elements only those very few elements of value can be weighted. Contemporaneous with this film and with better displays on the anti-war issue: All quiet on the western front (1930, dir. Lewis Milestone).