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A young soldier (Guy Madison) struggles to find purpose to his life after returning home from service in WWII. The guy’s problem isn’t as clear as I’d like it to be. His friends (Robert Mitchum and Bill Williams) have obvious injuries, but Madison’s character seems to suffer from nothing more than laziness. The film sometimes works as a soap opera, but I hate to see any movie skirt the issues of post-war trauma and depression. Mitchum and Dorothy McGuire give noteworthy performances, but Madison is stiff in one of his first starring roles. Good thing he’s eye candy. (Sweet Jesus, take a gander.)

Hot-ass Guy Madison