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John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara could not have been a better set of actors for a Irish picture in Ireland. Maureen O'Hara was so lovely and nice. John Wayne was the best of those days. What a seasoned cast with Ward Bond, Victor McLaughlin. This movie couldn't fail to be a success, one of my favorites and makes me feel a bit secure that people, at one time, were civil and had such integrity.

This movie is a 40's war propaganda movie. Five people re-live their war experiences to explain why they're working in a plane assembly line. What I find suspect is the last person (John Carradine) re-living his experience. He was a vagrant who cared about nothing, not even the war. Being confronted by a town judge, who condemns him for not being active in the war effort. Interesting that a 40's war movie would put war service above constitutional freedoms, sounds like something that might happen in communists Russia but not in the USA, and hopefully never will!

In this movie Clark Gable and Greer Garson start out as ideological enemies. So the Clark Gable character falls in love with this hateful person, what's the point? Normally a guy go would go stage door right but Clark Gable is a glutton for punishment. This is what fails in this movie although we continue to watch in that we are still attracted to both actors and we watch, sadistically. A normal man would have bailed on this female rattle snake but as we know movies are fiction!