Anachronistic movie and man: a service comedy in which the hero isn't expected to apologize for being in the service. (He does find things in the service to complain about, however. Such as the on-base disco: "I don't want to go to a disco. I want to go to a bar.") James Garner appears to have no problems with this role, and brings to it the weight of total conviction. Unfortunately, the built-in ambivalence of his character is not matched in his antagonist: the sadistic Southern sheriff of the collective liberal unconscious. The movie nevertheless fits in nicely with the tendency of Marvin Chomsky to do movies of small pretensions for the big screen and movies of big pretensions for the small screen (Holocaust, Law and Order, etc.), and up until the rooting starts, it makes a nice companion to such bits of Americana as Evel Knievel, Mackintosh and T.J., and Live a Little, Steal a Lot. With C. Thomas Howell, G. D. Spradlin, and Shirley Jones. (1984) — Duncan Shepherd
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