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| Chad Everett in FIRST TO FIGHT Year: 1967 Rating: ***1/2 |
Starting out an old school hunkered-in-the-trenches World War II action flick with heroic Chad Everett holding off approaching Japanese soldiers in an off-river jungle setting, FIRST TO FIGHT... produced and narrated by William Conrad with direction by Christian Nyby... makes an abrupt shift into a budding Stateside romance...
Progressively ignited between Everett's surviving and returning Sgt. Jack Connell and the lovely, classy and hard-to-get war bond touring chief Marilyn Devin; yet the best scenes have our true blue veteran competing with cocky cad Bobby Troup, who's not good enough to win this lady over...
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| Marilyn Devin with Chad Everett in FIRST TO FIGHT |
She's been through the ringer with a dead husband from Pearl Harbor, and the inevitable, unforced chemistry between Everett and Devin is genuine... until, when becoming a drill sergeant at Camp Pendleton, reunited with former colonel Dean Jagger (with best friend James Best back in the jungle), Connell wants another mission, and as the saying goes... be careful what you wish for...
For true war movie fanatics the third act is the best when the jungle warrior gets cold feet on a Normandy Beach style invasion, and, while it's cringe-worthy experiencing the hero becoming a coward, scenes with non-famous Gene Hackman as a strong/silent sergeant make this FIGHT, in attempting three stories in one, sustain patriotic entertainment (ironically during the Vietnam War) without being too corny or nostalgic.
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| Chad Everett from FIRST TO FIGHT with Gene Hackman |
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| Chad Everett from FIRST TO FIGHT with Gene Hackman |
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| Marilyn Devin with Chad Everett in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Chad Everett in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Bobby Troup in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Marilyn Devin in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Chad Everett and Marilyn Devin in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Chad Everett in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Chad Everett in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Gene Hackman in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Chad Everett in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Chad Everett and Gene Hackman in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Gene Hackman in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Chad Everett in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Claude Akins in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Chad Everett and Claude Akins in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Norman Alden and Gene Hackman in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Gene Hackman in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Gene Hackman in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Chad Everett in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Gene Hackman in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| From FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Chad Everett in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Chad Everett in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Chad Everett in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Chad Everett and James Best in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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| Chad Everett and James Best in FIRST TO FIGHT |
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