Henry Fonda

Maureen O'Hara

Thomas Mitchell

Allyn Joslyn

Reginald Gardiner

Melville Cooper

Bramwell Fletcher

Morton Lowry

Peter Lawford

Bess Flowers

John M. Stahl

John Brophy

Lamar Trotti

Arthur C. Miller

David Buttolph

James B. Clark

Richard Day

Maurice Ransford

Earl Luick

Thomas Little

Fred J. Rode

Guy Pearce

Drama

Immortal Sergeant

20th Century Fox

United States of America

CinemaSerf

Henry Fonda is a bit of a fish out of water in rather thin wartime effort. He is "Spence", a Canadian sent to fight in North Africa during WWII. When his sergeant "Kelly" (a creditable effort from Thomas Mitchell) comes a cropper and their convoy destroyed, he must lead his men through the desert to try and reach safety. Peppered within this rather onerous trek, we are shown retrospectives of the life he left behind with ("Valentine") Maureen O'Hara and the man she thinks she is going to marry "Tom" (Reginald Gardiner). O'Hara was much better with lively roles, she doesn't play very well here at all. The production is remarkably basic. There are plenty of sound stage desert scenes with back-projections going on, and there really is a distinct paucity of action until the last ten minutes or so. It's a morale-boosting effort for the folks back home in an USA yet to enter the fray, little more. Nothing much more to say... It's watchable, but forgettable.

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