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This bland, distasteful WWII quasi-love triangle is tonally akin to a sawed-off shotgun. It’s a veritable, highly inaccurate scatter-shot of ingredients errantly tragic, comedic and romantic, with a central cast of nearly insufferable, bewildering characters who appear more like wartime pin-ups than actual people.
Henry King, who directed nearly every top-level action film at 20th Century Fox (be it pleasant or miserable) for nearly two decades, is hopelessly disadvantaged with this material, but his set-pieces (excluding a moderately watchable climactic dogfight) are equally haphazard.
Tyrone Power plays the titular Yankee R.A.F. pilot, a woefully ignorant, slimy and loutish brute who has followed and inevitably ensnared a beautiful nightclub singer and dancer (Betty Grable) who is also entertaining the virtuous charm of a British captain who, coincidentally, finds himself in the same flight crew as our irritant anti-hero.
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