Wow, this film didn't even make it a decade before it started to get dated to where you started seeing links to the relatively contemporary, so of course this film doesn't make it into the new world spotlessly. Does anyone else love how I keep referencing things that came out well "after" this film as the roots of typecasts. Well, at least he's not as bad trapped by a role as DeForest Kelley, who may have only had a bit part in this film, yet there's no way you can't look at him as an army medic and not scream in your head, "McCoy!" As if that's not bad enough, one of his only lines was, "This man's dead, Captain", so they may as well have just had the line be, "He's dead, Jim", and there's not even a person in the cast named Jim, which is weird, considering that everyone and their grandmothers were named James back then. Granted, "To Kill a Mockingbird" came out quite a bit after this film, but either way, the fact of the matter is Peck never got to escape that dreaded gray flannel. Poor ol' Atticus Finch had made it to color from black-and-white, and yet, his suit was still gray.
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