Some soldiers coming home after WW2 were not as honest and virtuous as the vast majority ;fleecing the rich may be a way to make up for the best years of their life they gave to their country.
Rick is an ambiguous character: when he delivers his speech in front of the youth and later when he speaks to Deb in the car , ,although he knows the war memorial is phony and a swindle , his words do ring true :in a way,he may be sincere .Deb is a generous person ,par excellence the good girl (Tory being the bad one) , who never got over the loss of her husband killed in action and who knows statistics about juvenile delinquency :her sports center would be the solution ; but she does not know life ,and the man she idealizes is perhaps not the virtuous gent whose name she wants to remain engraved in memories .
The cast is excellent : the viewer does know if Rick puts on an act or if he approves of Deb's plan he almost regrets not to be able to carry on;Duryea is true to form as the bad guy ;Winters makes the best of a rather melodramatic part .
Rick is an ambiguous character: when he delivers his speech in front of the youth and later when he speaks to Deb in the car , ,although he knows the war memorial is phony and a swindle , his words do ring true :in a way,he may be sincere .Deb is a generous person ,par excellence the good girl (Tory being the bad one) , who never got over the loss of her husband killed in action and who knows statistics about juvenile delinquency :her sports center would be the solution ; but she does not know life ,and the man she idealizes is perhaps not the virtuous gent whose name she wants to remain engraved in memories .
The cast is excellent : the viewer does know if Rick puts on an act or if he approves of Deb's plan he almost regrets not to be able to carry on;Duryea is true to form as the bad guy ;Winters makes the best of a rather melodramatic part .