Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

vitaleralphlouis This movie is definitely NOT in the fine tradition of SO PROUDLY WE HAIL. Although filmed in 1943 when the war was going very badly for America, this film depicts the nurses as a grumbling useless band. It takes fully 1 hour and 22 minutes before any of these "nurses" helps a wounded GI, then the film ends soon after. This was a startlingly lame movie from MGM. I expected this film to be like "So Proudly We Hail." It was not.Decades ago when I was 14, I remember a group of us young guys went to the reissue of "Wake Island" double-billed with "So Proudly We Hail." "Wake Island" was one of the toughest and bloodiest battles of World War II and was a solidly made classic war movie. But "So Proudly We Hail" --- about nurses operating in extreme combat --- that was just downright astonishing. I don't think any of us thought of women as less than our equal after that day. Sixty years later it stands out as the grittiest war movie ever."So Proudly We Hail" did the nurses --- and America --- proud. "Cry Havoc" fails absolutely in comparison.

MartinHafer "Cry 'Havoc'" is one of quite a few films about women at the front lines in the Pacific theater during WWII. What makes this a bit different is that most of the women are NOT nurses, but untrained volunteers who are pressed into service during the final days in the Philippines during the early part of 1942. Ultimately, the audience knew that the women would not escape--as it was public knowledge of the fall of the islands.The film is fairly good but does suffer from a few characters who are more caricatures. The most egregious of them is played by Ann Sothern. She plays a tough dame--who always walks around with a chip on her shoulder and is hot for a lieutenant she hardly knows. Most of the rest aren't as broadly written as her--and a few are even quite interesting, such as the sick nurse played by Margaret Sullavan. To me, the film celebrates these women but also failed to seem very real--and often the stiff and overly-patriotic dialog was the reason why. Compared to other films of this conflict, such as "In Harm's Way" and "So Proudly We Hail", it's inferior--but still quite watchable and uplifting. A decent time-passer.

Neil Doyle CRY HAVOC follows in the tradition of films like SO PROUDLY WE HAIL by dealing exclusively with nurses in the Philippines on active duty during WWII. MARGARET SULLAVAN is the lieutenant in charge of a group of gals including ANN SOTHERN, ELLA RAINES, FRANCES GIFFORD and JOAN BLONDELL, all of whom are inexperienced but have to learn the ropes fast during wartime bombardments.Based on a play, it barely shows its stage origins and presents a gritty story of nurses under stress doing the best they can under dire circumstances. MARGARET SULLAVAN and FAY BAINTER fret over having to deal with "wet-nosed kids" (as Sullavan calls them), all of them eventually becoming battle hardened after working conditions continually put them in harm's way. Watch for ROBERT MITCHUM in a brief unbilled bit as a dying soldier.Sullavan and Sothern argue over Sothern's infatuation for a man Sullavan loves and there's some trite dialog among the all-female cast when they get to exchange stories--but it's still an above average melodrama of women nurses during war.Summing up: Worth it for the gritty wartime bombardments and interesting cast, but don't expect anything great. Richard Thorpe's direction keeps the pace steadfast without too many lulls until the downbeat ending.

whpratt1 This was a great WW II film which supported the war effort in America as we were fighting Japan and Germany, huge evil threats to the world. This story revolves around some new nurses who have to experience bombing raids as they are about to eat their evening meals. Ann Southern, (Pat Conlin), Joan Blondell (Grace), Ella Raines (Connie Booth) and Marsha Hunt,(Flo Norris) "Chloe's Prayer",'05. All of these women had great careers in Hollywood, some were just character actresses like Marsha Hunt, who had a cute turned up nose and simply never got the man she fell in love with. During the Joseph McCarthy Era, when McCarthy was investigating actors for being associated with the Communist party, Marsha Hunt was placed on his Black List, which turned out to be a false story. This film is a definite look back at the past and the opportunity to see great actors just starting their careers on the Silver Screen in Hollywood.