When I watch films like this, I always think of the real people who lived through these moments - the real women whose husbands were buried at Guadalcanal, the real Red Cross workers who held the hands of our servicemen as they died. It inevitably makes me rate films like this higher than they probably deserve, but that’s alright.
The “romance” in this is not good - William Holden’s character is awful for a long stretch of the film -…