ProductionĪrthur Laurents spent World War II with the Army Pictorial Service based at the film studio in Astoria, Queens and rose to the rank of sergeant. Mingo and Moss decide to go into business together. From this point on, Moss will never again kowtow to prejudice. In the film's crucial scene, the doctor forces Moss to overcome his paralysis by yelling a racial slur. carries Moss to the returning PT boat that covers the men with its twin. In a firefight with the Japanese, Mingo is wounded in the arm and Moss is unable to walk. The dying Finch escapes and dies in Moss's arms. When the patrol is discovered Finch is left behind and captured by the Japanese who force him to cry out to the patrol. (Brodie) and sturdy but troubled Sergeant Mingo (Lovejoy). The patrol is led by a young major (Dick) and includes Moss's lifelong white friend Finch (Bridges), whose death leaves him racked with guilt redneck-bigot corporal T.J. The film uses flashback techniques to show Moss, an Engineer topography specialist assigned to a reconnaissance patrol who are clandestinely landed from a PT boat on a Japanese-held island in the South Pacific to prepare the island for a major amphibious landing. Undergoing psychoanalysis by an Army psychiatrist (Corey), paralyzed Black war veteran Private Peter Moss (Edwards) begins to walk again only when he confronts his fear of forever being an "outsider."
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