The Wounded Don't Cry

Fans will rejoice to see Leonard Nimoy in a positive role, but the real guest star is Karl Boehm, a very talented actor in both romantic roles and unforgettable as the nutcase in Michael Powell's 1959 classic "Peeping Tom".

Script thrusts Vic and Boehm together in a trek to get some plasma for the German field hospital the squad captures. Vic balks at the idea, until sympathetic Leonard Nimoy is critically injured trying to save people when a couple of SS men among the wounded try to blow everyone up.

It's an interesting situation, milked for all it's worth in James Landis' screenplay. (Besides writing for TV, Landis directed a series of independent B pictures with cult actor Arch Hall Jr., including the classic "The Sadist".)

Vic is solid as usual as the thinking man's soldier, looking at situations realistically but skeptically -a perfect vehicle for audience identification. Though ostensible enemies, he and Boehm find their shared humanity under tough circumstances.