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Produced as a personal project by M-G-M Production Chief Dore Schary and scripted by Robert Pirosh, the team which made Battleground together, the movie wisely avoids self-conscious preachments, lets its message of tolerance and fair play come through in the action, if sometimes a bit crudely. To his credit, Scripter Pirosh, who doubled as director, has given his Nisei characters (including veterans of the 442nd) a background of strikingly realistic battle scenes and endowed them with a wry, grim humor that suits them both as G.I.s and as a minority long since inured to getting the short end of the stick.
Go for Broke! would be even better if its makers had not tried to improve on the truth with hokum that Hollywood palms off in the name of showmanship. Sample: fanciful advice to tourists on the sound track, misquoted from the Army's wartime guidebooks, to contrast with shots of battle hardship and drudgery.
* Seven distinguished unit citations, 4,902 individual decorations, including one Medal of Honor 47 Distinguished Service Crosses, an estimated 3,600 Purple Hearts.