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In 1941, bugler and career soldier Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt transfers to a rifle company at Schofield Barracks on
the island of Oahu. Captain Dana "Dynamite" Holmes has heard he is a talented middleweight boxer, and wants him to join
his regimental team to secure a promotion for Holmes. Prewitt refuses, having stopped fighting because he blinded his
sparring partner and close friend over a year before. Holmes makes life as miserable as possible for Prewitt, hoping that
he will change his mind, and then orders First Sergeant Milton Warden to prepare general court-martial papers, after Sergeant
Galovitch first insults Prewitt and then gives an unreasonable order that Prewitt refuses to obey. Warden suggests, however,
that he try to get Prewitt to change his mind by doubling up on company punishment. The other non-commissioned officers join
in the hazing, and Prewitt is supported only by his close friend, Private Angelo Maggio. Meanwhile, Warden, at the risk of a
prison sentence, begins an affair with Holmes' neglected wife, Karen. Sergeant Maylon Stark has told Warden about Karen's many
previous affairs at Fort Bliss, including with himself, though he adds "There's something mighty strange about that woman." As
their relationship develops, Warden asks Karen about her affairs to test her sincerity, and Karen relates that Holmes has been
unfaithful to her most of their marriage. She miscarried one night when Holmes returned home from seeing a hat-check girl,
drunk and unable to call a doctor, rendering her barren. She then affirms her love for Warden, and tells him that if he became
an officer, she could divorce Holmes and marry him; Warden reluctantly agrees to consider it.
Prewitt and Maggio spend their liberty at the New Congress Club, a gentlemen's club where Prewitt falls for Lorene. She wants
to marry a "proper" man with a "proper" job, and live a "proper" life. Maggio and Staff Sergeant James R. Judson nearly come
to blows at the club over Judson's loud piano playing. Later, Judson provokes Maggio by taking his photograph of his sister
from him, kissing it, and whispering in Prewitt's ear. Maggio smashes a barstool over Judson's head. Judson pulls a
switchblade, but then, Warden intervenes. Judson backs down, but warns Maggio that sooner or later, he will end up in
the stockade, where Judson is in charge. During a weekend liberty, while Prewitt is with Lorene at the New Congress Club,
Maggio walks in drunk and in uniform having deserted his post. The military police arrest Maggio, and he is sentenced to six
months in the stockade. Sergeant Galovitch later picks a fight with Prewitt while he is on detail, and a crowd gathers as the
two start fighting. At first, Prewitt resorts only to body blows, and even then pulling his punches, but his fighting spirit
reemerges and he comes close to knocking Galovitch out before Holmes, who had been watching for some time from outside the
crowd, finally steps in and stops the fight. Galovitch accuses Prewitt of starting the fight, but when the man in charge of
the detail says that it was Galovitch, Holmes abruptly lets him off the hook and disperses the crowd.
The entire incident is witnessed by the base commander, who orders an investigation by the Inspector General. When the truth
about Holmes is revealed to the commander he orders a court martial, but when Holmes begs for an alternative, an aide suggests
that Holmes resign his commission; the commander accepts the suggestion and orders Holmes' resignation within the hour. Holmes'
replacement, Captain Ross (John Bryant), reprimands the others involved in the hazing and orders the boxing team's framed
photographs and trophies be destroyed; he then demotes Galovitch to private and puts him in charge of the latrine.
Maggio escapes from the stockade and, after telling of the abuse he suffered at Judson's hands, dies in Prewitt's arms.
After tearfully playing Taps in tribute to his friend, Prewitt hunts Judson down and kills him with the same switchblade
Judson pulled on Maggio earlier, but in so doing sustains a serious stomach wound, and so he goes into hiding at Lorene's house.
The military is caught completely by surprise on Sunday morning when the Japanese commence a pre-dawn attack on Pearl Harbor.
Against Lorene's wishes, Prewitt attempts to rejoin his company under cover of darkness, but is shot dead by a patrol guarding
against possible saboteurs. Warden sadly notes the irony of the boxing tournament being canceled because of the attack.
When Karen finds out that Warden never applied for officer training, she realizes they have no future together, and regretfully
sails back to the mainland with her husband. On board the ship, Lorene and Karen meet, and Lorene says that her fiancé, named
Prewitt, was a bomber pilot who was heroically killed during the attack. Karen recognizes Prewitt's name, but says nothing.
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Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed, Frank Sinatra,
Ernest Borgnine, Merle Travis, George Reeves, Phillip Ober, Jack Warden
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Director: Fred Zinnemann
Producer: Buddy Adler
Released - August 5, 1953
Length - 118 minutes
Music Composers: George Duning & Morris W. Stoloff
Movie Distributed by Columbia Pictures
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