Sometimes all it takes to spruce up a dull movie is a beautiful woman. Even better if the woman is a young Tuesday Weld.
Soldier in the Rain is a real bore in its first half despite an earnest Steve McQueen trying to do comedy as a soldier spinning a few schemes to retire early and Jackie Gleason as his mentor who also dreams of retiring to some island with beautiful women.
Things are nice and easy during peacetime and the soldiers indulge in all sorts of goofy shenanigans. None of them particularly interesting.
The young Tuesday Weld's relationship with the elderly and stately Gleason at a fair and the subsequent double date at a golf course makes the movie.
The light hearted film takes a sudden unexpected turn into the violent when there is a desperate fight with McQueen and Gleason on one side and their rivals on the other. It is a pretty violent fight without any music. It was done very well.
The rather desolate ending was at odds with the tone of the first half of the movie.
(6/10)
Soldier in the Rain is a real bore in its first half despite an earnest Steve McQueen trying to do comedy as a soldier spinning a few schemes to retire early and Jackie Gleason as his mentor who also dreams of retiring to some island with beautiful women.
Things are nice and easy during peacetime and the soldiers indulge in all sorts of goofy shenanigans. None of them particularly interesting.
The young Tuesday Weld's relationship with the elderly and stately Gleason at a fair and the subsequent double date at a golf course makes the movie.
The light hearted film takes a sudden unexpected turn into the violent when there is a desperate fight with McQueen and Gleason on one side and their rivals on the other. It is a pretty violent fight without any music. It was done very well.
The rather desolate ending was at odds with the tone of the first half of the movie.
(6/10)