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25 December 1968 (USA) moreTagline:
Just one weakness.... Just one.Plot:
THE SERGEANT is the story of the dark inner struggle of Master Sergeant Albert Callan to overcome the... more | add synopsisAwards:
1 win moreNewsDesk:
John Exshaw Reviews A New Book About John Phillip Law(From CinemaRetro. 16 January 2009, 6:40 PM, PST)
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Good film; slightly confusing moreCast
(Complete credited cast)| Rod Steiger | ... | MSgt. Albert Callan | |
| John Phillip Law | ... | Pfc. Tom Swanson | |
| Ludmila Mikaël | ... | Solange | |
| Frank Latimore | ... | Capt. Loring | |
| Elliott Sullivan | ... | Pop Henneken | |
| Ronald Rubin | ... | Cpl. Cowley | |
| Philip Roye | ... | Aldous Brown | |
| Jerry Brouer | ... | Sgt. Komski | |
| Memphis Slim | ... | Himself |
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After wanting to see this film for a long time, I finally tracked down a VHS copy taped off TV in Philadelphia (I found the copy in California). The performances are very good. And it's well made, until it gets close to THE BIG MOMENT, and then the editing goes awry, as if studio executives had gotten nervous about the subject matter and deleted whole sections, so that the time line of the behavior of the title character - played by Rod Steiger - is all off. One minute he's telling John Philip Law to get lost; the next minute he wants him near. I know people change their minds, and LOSE them when they're obsessive, but it feels choppy here, and glaring. And between THE BIG MOMENT and the denouement there is an odd black and white montage that seems to be some kind of memory device (could the copy I saw be missing something?), so that seemed like another obvious studio error. Still, the movie is worthing seeing and should be on a double bill with "Reflections In A Golden Eye," another well made, failed film from around the same time and on the same subject (repressed, lonely, older, closeted military man fascinated by a handsome younger guy).