There, under whip and chain and sun, he lived out his youth and his young manhood, dreaming of the death of slavery 2,000 years before it finally would die.In other words, these are not going to be the interpretations of trained musicians which I think is all to the good.In gritty, documentary-style black and white, director Fred Zinnemann (who had directed the acclaimed westernHigh Noon (1952)a year earlier) accurately captured the isolation and boredom of the military personnel in a close-knit Army barracks on the island of Oahu, combining social/military history with the drama of the personal lives of its main characters - an enlisted man and a neglected officer""s wife, and a prostitute and a military outcast.In an exquisite scene, he leads her up steps and ushers her into his apartment while muttering to himself: "I ought o have my head examined.The Egyptologist sat upright and screamed: "No, you must not read from the book." A huge swarm of locusts swirled into the camp - the first of the 10 plagues - and enveloped everyone, and they ran for cover inside the labyrinth of passageways.