Kings Go Forth

Kings Go Forth is a 1958 blackandwhite World War II film starring Frank Sinatra, Tony Curtis, and Natalie Wood. The screenplay was written by Merle Miller from the novel of the same name by Joe David Brown, and the film was directed by Delmer Daves. The plot involves friends of different backgrounds manning an observation post in Southern France who fall in love with the same French girl. She proves to be of American Mulatto ancestry. Themes of racism and miscegenation provide the conflict elements between the leading characters, something that was out of the ordinary for films of the time, while the setting during the socalled Champagne Campaign remains unique.

Harris reveals himself at once as a ladys man and a schemer, acquiring girlfriends, food, and other luxury items. Corporal Lindsay Edward Ryder, in charge of the units paperwork and logistics, reveals Harris story to Loggins Harris is the son of a wealthy textile mill owner in New Jerseyin order to avoid criminal charges of trying to bribe a member of the local Draft Board with a car, Harris has volunteered for combat duty in Europe. Harris does show bravery while rescuing a group of men trapped in a minefield and while attacking a German bunker singlehanded, but Loggins still has his reservations about the man.The Colonel Karl Swenson grants Loggins and his unit leave in the seaside town of Nice. While walking by himself on a quay, Loggins is attracted to Monique Blair Natalie Wood they go to dinner, and she explains she was born in America, but has lived in France since she was a small child. Shes unwilling to go out with Loggins again. Loggins ask her to meet him in the same cafe the next week at 8PM. The next week, Loggins waits at the cafe, Monique doesnt show, and he walks out despondent, only to be asked to have a drink by an older American woman who has apparently been waiting for him. He finds out it is Moniques mother, who was checking him out, he passed, and she takes him to her palatial home to join Monique. The two spend a great deal of time together. One night he tells her he loves her, and Monique finally reveals to him that she is afraid to get involved with a US soldier because her nowdead father was a Negro, and she has seen the general bigotry all American soldiers seem to have. Loggins is confused and leaves, not sure about his feelings. ........

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