Though a bit overstuffed with long-winded speeches, Chayefsky's scabrously funny script brims with snappy, crackling dialogue.

The project’s cynicism toward war is never in doubt.

Has something important to say about war and the way it is glorified by some in our culture, courtesy of Paddy Chayefsky... dialogue is bristling with caustic observations of war, rare for a film of that era. He enters Joe Mankiewicz territory.

Although Julie Andrews is supposed to be playing a war widow, she's actually playing Mary Poppins.