The story of a young man and his journey to become a US paratrooper.The story of a young man and his journey to become a US paratrooper.The story of a young man and his journey to become a US paratrooper.
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Robert Christian
- Pvt. 'Rocky' Laymon
- (as Robert Christan)
Whitey Hughes
- Sgt. White
- (as Robert Hughes)
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- GoofsWhen Sgt. White marches the new arrivals to their platoon barracks, the men appear to have glider patches on their caps; and a few days later, they are wearing 82nd Airborne shoulder patches. Neither of these things would happen in Airborne training. To be a paratrooper and wear the glider patch, one must have completed training and earned his wings. And, no one would be assigned to Airborne units until that time. But for the dozen or so movie stars in the film, the rest of the men were obviously trained paratroopers and assigned to units of the 82nd Airborne at Fort Bragg.
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This so-so drama purports to tell the story of a new paratrooper in the 82nd division of the army. Eddie Slocum is a wet behind the ears kid who has dreams of becoming a paratrooper just like his Uncle Charlie. As is custom with movies like this, he meets up with a motley of crew members all from different backgrounds, like Rocky, the bully of the group, and Mouse, the uh, jive-talking "lover" of the group. Anyways, they all get put through exercises, and we get to follow them, and actually this is all very interesting. However some 'Drama' develops when Eddie meets a doe-eyed country girl by the name of Jenny May. And well, the love interest side falls flat, because the actress playing her is sort of a airhead, and since her character really is no one we should care about, we just wait around to get the action pumping again (sort of like Top Gun actually). The ending is sort of lovey dovey too with the new chutists, as well, but all in all, I enjoyed this.
- Spuzzlightyear
- Apr 23, 2006
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- Runtime1 hour 20 minutes
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