A very involving picture about the difficulty of success in a war effort. Sturges keeps what is mostly a one-location movie thoroughly involving and fresh, reminding us how trapped we are while still hinting at an idea of freedom, only to make that freedom far more exciting than we could have expected.

Certainly the nastiest of the few 30s Hitchcocks I've seen, and pretty damn thrilling.

Its warmth feels all the more realized every time I see it. A film that contrasts the grimness of death with the joy of living, emerges by celebrating life. "How could anybody enjoy THAT film?" someone wondered as we were exiting. How could you not?

Marvelous, intensely moving, and full of the one thing of which we can never have too much - truly unique images. Pointedly more minor than any of Malick's other films, but hardly lesser for it.