Noite Sangrenta

This must be one of the best films of the Korean war ever made. Tom Payne is ususally reliably good, but here he is excellent. The whole character of the film is more than realistic, it is like having been made in the middle of the war with the war conditions constantly present everywhere. And the story is fantastic. It is about a bottle of whiskey that Tom receives from his girl before going out to war in 1942 with the instruction to use it at an appropriate occasion, many such occasions rise, but every time he decides to save it for a more special occasion. After the world war he is posted in Korea, where the Korea war offers atrocious hardships. He still has his bottle, but as conditions constantly grow worse he keeps saving it for a more significant moment. Thus he keeps saving it all the way to 1950. He brings it out occasionally as a proper moment has come, but each time he puts it down in the bag again to save it for an even better occasion. Finally he reaches safety on the coast after a long difficult march across the mountains, the remnants of his plutoon is saved and they are among their own with the marines, and the occasion seems to be at hand. He wants to share it with the survivors and offers it to one after another who really would need it, while his girl is still waiting for him at home...