The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

Nothing special in this little war sleeper, but although not bad time waster. We have seen this a billion times before, an ordinary GI story about soldiers to whom we give a dog in their warfare efforts...Forgettable at the most. This is the first feature directed by Henry Levin, for Columbia Pictures, where the film maker made most of his career. It's starring Larry Parks, another faithful Levin's actor in later swashbuckler - against the "evil" George Mac Ready - and produced by Jack Frier - never heard of him... Yes, you can miss this war dog story. It could have been a police dog one, as Edward Cahn did one time. But that's another comment.