PT 109. Warner Bros. has approached the story of J.F.K.'s 1943 heroism with a reverence usually reserved for a New Testament spectacle: not a chapter or verse of Robert Donovan's bestseller is omitted. This accounts for the film's nearly 21-hour running time. It does not account, however, for turning the first hour or so into a miniaturized Mister Roberts. All the old hands are on board. There is the salty Regular Navy-man who makes things tough for the fresh-water PT-boat jockeys; there are the stock-comic enlisted men with true hearts and rural accents;...
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