Robert Wagner, Broderick Crawford & Buddy Ebsen star in this absorbing drama about a recruit who comes of age during WWII. Sam Gifford (WAGNER) is a young, successful cotton planter who lacks compassion for others, especially his own sharecroppers. But once in combat, he answers to a sadistic officer (CRAWFORD), & must rely on the friendship of a cropper (EBSEN). Nominated for a 1956 Oscar