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The year is around 1950, and war is brewing in Korea.
It certainly works as a war movie, even if the moves are fairly familiar by this point.
These are terse, restrained men, for whom control and discipline are everything.
Perhaps more importantly, Brown has clearly learned the hard way not to really trust anybody.
This is not a shouty movie.
That requires a lot from the actors.
Perhaps theres an underlying duality to that title, too.
Its not a service or a flag that these men ultimately devote themselves to, but to one another.
Powells performance, as a result, is largely reactive, as hes slowly pulled into Majorss orbit.
War movies are often about their protagonists developing thousand-yard stares after going through the meat-grinder of battle.
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