Word: prewitt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture complete, Nadir had something of a cutup in the saddle too: rough-riding Willie Hartack, who bounces in the irons like a novice riding for his life. But both clowns kept their minds on their work: Nadir finished an easy two lengths in front of R. D. Prewitt's Terra Firma, and Willie set a new record with his 41st stakes victory of the year. Cash to Hancock...
...this light the movie's great advantage is that its protagonist, Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt, is a true tragic hero, a man destroyed by the thing he loves. Prewitt loves the Army; the Army reciprocates by stepping on Prewitt, humiliating him, and finally killing him. Like a brilliant freshman who flunks out by ignoring exams as an imposition on his freedom, Prewitt is a born soldier who masters and loves all the mechanical; aspects of the Army, but who can not accept its small demands on his self-respect...
...very conciseness of the film, however, detracts slightly from its long-range impression. The crucial matter of Prewitt's masochistic devotion to the Army is, for example, never given much more of a basis than his muttered, "If it weren't for the Army, I wouldn't have learned how to bugle." The book had the space to go far back into Prewitt's boyhood, and thus give a more convincing picture of a man who had known but one family, one friend, one lover in his life, and that the Army. From Here to Eternity runs for a little...
...screenplay focuses more sharply than the novel did on Private Robert E. Lee ("Prew") Prewitt, the "hardhead" who can "soldier with any man," the 30-year man who cannot play it smart because he is cursed with a piece of ultimate wisdom. As he puts it, "If a man don't go his own way, he's nothin...
...novel is weakest in its first two chapters and last section, in which Jones tries to define clearly the relationship of his protagonists to the Army. He never succeeds in explaining convinoingly just why Prewitt and Wardes loved the Army as much as we are told they did. At the end they both make romantic, almost sentimental, gutters of devotion that merely mask Jones' failure...