A self-proclaimed preacher marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real dad hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
Set during the Pacific War against the Japanese, this WW2 drama discerns between achieving one's mission at any cost versus preserving the lives under one's command and enforcing discipline through fear as opposed to mutual respect.
Laughton recites Shakespeare's "Seven Ages of Man" soliloquy from "As You Like It" and an excerpt of "So This is the Man" from Thomas Wolfe's novel "You Can't Go Home Again".
