" However, at home he is shown little respect - in fact, his ghastly mother-in-law snatches the paper and tosses it away unread.I simply give up.Father: What are you going to give up?Charlie: Have you ever stopped to think that a family should be the most wonderful thing in the world and that this family""s just gone o pieces?Father: We have?Charlie: Of course we have.There is no traditional, synchronized voice dialogue in the film - but voices and sounds do emanate from machines (e.A flashbulb pops as the Chief of Police (Marshall Bradford) speaks to Phillip Evans (John Archer, father of film star Anne Archer), a US Treasury Department agent, about the man""s ultimate fate:A couple of hunters found him frozen up in the mountains and we started wondering.April, 1918, almost a million American young men are engaged in a struggle which they have been told will make the world safe for democracy.