Hawks's maligned diamond. A gorgeously mudded-and-mustard-gassed and outright oneiric war melodrama that crams every human fear and desire into the baggiest jodhpurs ever worn by a Hollywood leading man. A blinded and atrabilious Warner Baxter commands his own elderly father (Lionel Barrymore) to join him on a suicide mission to atone for the latter's cowardice. When Barrymore asks his own son permission to toot on a little bugle seconds before they know they're to die, he seems to be tooting for all the great impotent fathers of all time. A very mean script by Faulkner. Surrender to it!