side him, and through her nobecomes an instant hit.
On demob, it appears that the only way is up. They star together in a 'Burns and Allen' type top TV show, only threatened when Dixie's bawdy humour flouts the censor. And when Koret flares up, it's only natural that the wartime heroes should again go out to entertain 'the boys'.
Instead of the fairytale WW2 is presented as, Dixie is faced with real deaths in a real war where there appears no real enemy. Koreans are being attacked for accepting Communist blankets to avoid the cold, as Lixi s schprwrit ing uncle (George Segal) puts Shaken, she returns to America. to find the duo's show subject to MeCarthyism, which to Dixie's hor ror, Eddie is willing to accept. They split, onl reunited, with Dixie's extreme reluctance, for a VietIt in here that the personal tragedy of war is forcefully brought home to both of them. But still Eddie maintains an unthinking patriotism. Only in the last few frames of the film does he start to question the wars he