OMG, it's like the Ed Wood version of Full Metal Jacket. Really, it's that bad.
Clearly, as producer-director-cinematographer-editor (especially editor), the 24-year-old Kubrick was in way over his head. Being saddled with a screenplay by the future scripter of Jaws II didn't help. Truly, if this were a blind test, and given the multiple choice, I suspect more viewers would finger this as the first effort of Ed Wood rather than Stanley Kubrick.
For further curiosity value, there is grizzled Hollywood veteran Paul Mazursky in his first screen role, looking impossibly young and cute at 23. For his sins, he gets to deliver the line that serves as Review Summary above.
For better or worse, the TCM broadcast of this movie will give succor to every first-time filmmaker in the world. No matter how unspeakably bad your first feature may be, hey, who knows, you might go on to make Dr. Strangelove. Or Plan 9 From Outer Space.
Clearly, as producer-director-cinematographer-editor (especially editor), the 24-year-old Kubrick was in way over his head. Being saddled with a screenplay by the future scripter of Jaws II didn't help. Truly, if this were a blind test, and given the multiple choice, I suspect more viewers would finger this as the first effort of Ed Wood rather than Stanley Kubrick.
For further curiosity value, there is grizzled Hollywood veteran Paul Mazursky in his first screen role, looking impossibly young and cute at 23. For his sins, he gets to deliver the line that serves as Review Summary above.
For better or worse, the TCM broadcast of this movie will give succor to every first-time filmmaker in the world. No matter how unspeakably bad your first feature may be, hey, who knows, you might go on to make Dr. Strangelove. Or Plan 9 From Outer Space.