The other reviewers do a good job of covering many of the pros and cons of this film; I'll leave that to them. But what always struck me as odd was that it was made twelve years after the war ended. Filled with references to wartime concerns such as rationing, the black market, housing shortages - I wonder how relevant these topics were to 1957 audiences? And the clear war-weariness and near-cynicism of the principals, their disdain for bureaucracy and the never-served profiteers, is hard to carry more than a decade after the fact. It may have had a better reception had it been made in 1945 when the sacrifices of the fighting men were fresh in people's minds.
Review of Kiss Them for Me
