People are voting emotionally.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I am surprised this film has not gotten more play over the years. The acting of Clark Gable, Lana Turner, and Anne Baxter here is great. John Hodiak as Dr. Sunday is very good. Ray Collins (Lt. Tragg on Perry Mason) is Lt. Col. Avery Silver and he is so good in his support role that the movie has to recover a bit when he is killed.Strange, Paul Osborn (East Of Eden), the writer here gets more credit for other films but his writing of Sidney Kingsley's (East of Eden's) story is just fine. Being an MGM film, there is a huge studio cast that is un-credited including Alan Hale Jr. (Gilligan's Island) and Arthur O'Connell who would go on into many bigger roles than this film. The story is a bit more strict than the actual reality of war. I mean Baxter is super human as the wife waiting at home sacrificing every thing waiting for her man to return. Meanwhile, Turner and Gable develop an amazing chemistry here. They seem to keep avoiding the inevitable until quite late in the film.Even later is the ending which really does some moralizing, but yet is so appropriate. The film starts in the present, then flashes back to before the war, then takes us through 3 1/2 years of war and then comes back to the present, only to flash back again for 1 month after the war. The script is strong enough to support the talented cast.The most memorable idea is "Will they be able to adjust to us when we come home?" While the ending does address the problem of someone returning from the war well, it is a notch below the message in an earlier more powerful film - "The Best Years of Our Lives". Still, this film does deliver that message and several others quite successfully.

I generally love WWII movies from the 40's, but this one disappointed me as it comes across more as a soap opera than a War film. It doesn't appear that many have seen this film, according to the low number of user comments. I find this surprising for a film that has 2 of the biggest box office names of that era. But perhaps that's attributed to the fact that its not that great of a movie.Lana is not very glamorous in this role and in fact looks a little dowdy. Perhaps they were trying to help her get taken more seriously as a dramatic actress.For the most part, I found the movie a little too sterile for a war movie. Its not anything like the realistic portrayals of modern war movies. All the scenes in their Operating tent looks like everyone is in slow motion - there is no stress or panic or chaos like you would find in a real war O/R tent. Even when their medical base is being bombed, people can be seen just strolling by the entrance of the tent. Who does this in the middle of a bombing?I found the cinematography a little lacking as well. There were some extremely fake process shots and unrealistic studio sets for some of the outdoor scenes. There were some realistic war scenes after the invasion that looked like actual stock war footage. I did like the first kiss between Gable & Turner and how it was shot in the shadows with the white snow falling behind them outside.I think the movie was probably timely during its original release in helping address the problem of how hard it is to return home after war. So, on that front, it was worthwhile.

This is a far from perfect film featuring Gable and Turner, but upon seeing it for the second time, it sure seemed a lot better than I remembered it. In particular, I appreciated that the film took a pretty big risk dealing with wartime romance between a married doctor and a nurse when they are stationed overseas. This sort of situation MUST have happened quite a bit with all those nurses and WACS/WAVS, etc. serving in action, though it is hardly ever mentioned in any film up until that time. Plus, it offered a very unusual situation where a man is in love with a woman he is not married to and yet he still loves his wife at home. Pretty adult fare for 1948, I must say! The film begins with Gable a rich and successful doctor in the States. He is very isolated from the real world and his main focus in on the country club and his pampered wife--unconcerned about much else. When the war comes, he does serve but seems to be pretty selfish. His head nurse in the field hospital is a much more giving and selfless individual and they are destined to hate each other because they are so different AND because this IS Lana Turner and Clark Gable (this plot device is necessary before they actually fall in love--a bit of a cliché, I know).Gable and Turner are both excellent as the leads and their scenes together are excellent as well. I especially appreciated Lana's emotional range--it was better and more vulnerable here than I am used to seeing. The direction was pretty good and all the MGM production values were going full speed ahead! I especially appreciated the snow scene--you KNOW it was done in a sound stage and yet it STILL looked exceptional (though their breath didn't show--considering it was probably close to 70 degrees).Overall, this is a must-see for Gable fans and a pretty good flick for anyone but people who MUST have a lot of action in their films. Despite being WWII, the film is pretty talking and there is quite a bit of romance--something action junkies will probably have a hard time accepting.

2nd viewing and a lot of time in between. Enjoyed it first time especially how Lana pulls her role off and how sincere Gable was. Both great actors always worth watching. Anne Baxter was also very,very touching and deep as the wife.What really got me this time, having spent war time in Nam, was the changes Gable went through and the HOMECOMING. Anyone who has NOT experienced the razor's edge of actual combat, the terror the elation and the horror of seeing others die can feel what Gable projected magnificently in coming home after all that madness and trying to feel like you fit in again anywhere. You don't....for a long time. That why Gable said "...bear with me for a while..." Not only was he talking about losing Lana but returning home from a war, sometimes much more difficult than war itself. This film has so much deep feelings embedded in all three major characters it is amazing to me. The writer nailed it and Mr LeRoy was almost genius in bringing out such performances by all. I'm glad I got to view it on TCM a 2nd time. It really brings out a HOMECOMING!!