The O'Connells, not knowing that son Alex had quit college, felt estranged from him, remarking: "We can't let Alex become some stranger in pictures on our mantle.Amanda: Sure you do.Wealldo....A boy sows a wild oat or wo, the whole world winks.A girl does the same - scandal.Adam phones, telling Amanda that he has been "elected" by his chief to prosecute "the woman who shot her husband yesterday" - and "the boss wants a quick conviction, and I'm just the little guy that can get it for him, so he says.He views he formation called the Ant Hill through a narrow slit.He is clearly out of place and ill-at-ease as he marches through the muddy, narrow renches to inform 701st Infantry Regimental Commander Colonel Dax (Kirk Douglas) of the planned attack.]This pretentious, overwrought film was plagued with a stormy production history, mostly involving a conflict between he over-controlling Selznick and famed silent film director King Vidor.