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More nitpicking..........


I didn't catch the extras wearing blue jeans and tennis shoes, but I sure did catch a few characters wearing (then) current-issue cotton utility shirts and trousers. You would think that in 1965, when this film was made, that the surplus stores were still bulging with WWII uniforms...........

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I didn't catch that. I did catch that the flashbacks to home looked like '65 America, not '44 America. Maybe that's where the budget ran up against reality?


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I'm going to give Cornel Wilde the benefit of the doubt and suggest this was intentional and not due to budget constraints. It makes a point to the audience that these experiences are timeless, it will be your experience as well (re Vietnam.) It also gives the film a sort of "Slaughterhouse 5" vibe, maybe the Captain isn't really reminiscing about the present or the past but experiencing some other time (and place)...

I thought all those scenes looked more like 1965 than 1943(?). The wife and kid, the hooker's hotel/apartment, the girlfriend's house...

I can't speak to the Japanese men's thoughts. Maybe Japanese furnishings, attire, etc. didn't change much from 1943 to 1965. I just don't know.

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I also assumed the /extremely/ 1960s home scenes are deliberate.

But some weird anachronisms. One that struck me was whoever was eating the beans was using a white plastic spoon. I guess the picked it up from the craft services table, as that's not likely for the mid 1940s.

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