On the front in Italy during WW2, a sergeant thinks that one of his men is faking battle fatigue and sets out to expose him.
Acting
Dickerson's sergeant: petty tyrant energy, impressively hateable.
Direction
Hayes wrangles tension from nothing—pure exploitation craft.
Director
John Hayes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Vietnam's early years, this cheap indie accidentally predicted how America would pathologize its own soldiers.
Hayes shot this in six days for $33,000—less than the catering budget of The Great Escape, released the same year.
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