Whether the collaboration of three screen writers gave this sometimes delightful, sometimes interminable motion picture an identity crisis, is anyone's guess.

"Private Benjamin" seems coarse, sluggish and interminable as a comedy scenario, but the profoundly depressing aspect of it is that Goldie Hawn appears to be receding as a comedienne and emerging as a boss lady.

This is arguably although unfortunately Goldie Hawn's most memorable role.

Bob Hope joined the army; so did Danny Kaye, Andy Griffith, and the teams of Laurel & Hardy, Abbott & Costello, and Martin & Lewis. Stepping into this tried and true tradition of military comedies, Goldie Hawn enlisted and found her signature role.