This is easily one of Steve McQueen's worst pictures and it's a pretty lousy World War II picture. McQueen almost turned down The Great Ecape because of this and his picture picture Hell Is For Heroes were both World War II films and both flops. Hell Is For Heroes was a much better film directed by Don Siegel and McQueen's character are basically the same in those two. It's easy to see why this film did so bad and but not so with Hell Is For Heroes. There isn't much plot here except that McQueen is a rebel and always has to disobey orders and Robert Wagner plays his co-pilot and friend who wants to play by the rules. There is a girl played by Shirley Anne Field who Wagner likes but it's a pretty bad movie and you shouldn't watch it.
Review of The War Lover
