Corman (G.D.Spradlin) [the name pays tribute to director Roger Corman, although he name is spelled Cormen in one of the dossier""s documents], and bespectacled junior officer Colonel Lucas ("Luke") (Harrison Ford).When compared to the first anti-war film of the talkie era,All Quiet on the Western Front (1930),The Big Paradeis more a film of escapist entertainment rather than an anti-war treatise, although its powerful battle scenes and staging undoubtedly influenced director Lewis Milestone""s later film.The one that sent you down the road to Shitsburg.This? Well, this was mine." He told the Recruiter as he was wheeled in for surgery - strapped onto a stretcher: "Just promise you""ll do right by me." Once deep inside he Ape territory, Malcolm came across animal skulls and bones arranged into ""scarecrows"" by the apes.