I never cease to be amazed at the ingeniously insane manipulations of the marketing department. "Men as their women never knew them!" Well, I suppose that's actually true. Were there any females at all in the cast? I can't remember, but why not throw in a nurse with Greg Peck? And is it possible that the color poster -- the film is B&W -- highlights the lips of these characters to suggest that some of them may actually be female?
Subterfuge shouldn't have been necessary. It's a good film. M-G-M's contemporary COMMAND DECISION makes for an interesting comparison. It's a relatively sedate and talky movie, based on a stage play and concerned with the air war as managed by the generals. Yet it grapples with some of the same issues. Miklos Rozsa's score is generally restrained. An unusual characteristic is that the opening credits roll over the drone of B-17 engines until Rozsa's music suddenly erupts at the appearance of the producer's name -- Sidney Franklin's special request, according to MR!
