October 8 movie: Cry 'Havoc.' As possibly the only all-female war movie ever, this was an interesting novelty. As a movie, not so good. It's about a group of nurses at a field hospital in Bataan. There are men playing extras in a few scenes, I think only patients in the hospital. (Including Robert Mitchum in an uncredited cameo: he says "I'm alright" and then dies.) The Women handled the absence of men pretty well, but the strain of making a WWII movie without male actors had a negative effect on this one. The dialogue was stilted and stagey at times; I'd bet it was based on a play. The movie was really depressing too, as movies about Bataan always are, what with that whole "death march" thing on the horizon.
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