Storyline

Sentemental military comedy revolves around two contemporary army buddies, Master Sergeant Maxwell Slaughter (Jackie Gleason), a smooth operator, who supply Sergeant Eustis Clay (Steve McQueen) idolizes and hopes will join him as a civilian in a private business enterprise. Clay endeavors to be a player in the military, just like Slaughter, but it seems as though Clay still has a lot to learn from his mentor. They are joined by Tuesday Weld as a shrill dizzy blonde teenager named Bobby Jo Pepperdine and Tony Bill as bumbling Private First Class Jerry Meltzer, McQueen's screwball sidekick.—alfiehitchie

Plot Keywords

sergeant, military officer, friend, teen girl, endearing, engaging, army base, cafeteria, american south, carnival, courtroom, military life, friendship, aspirations, unlikely romance, jealousy, discovery, rivalry, 1960s

Short Review

...the movie's tolerable (yet hardly engrossing) atmosphere is due almost entirely to the efforts of its talented stars...

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