]Uncle Benny""s enforcer Ku proceeded to a restricted US Customs Zone holding area, where he met with a corrupt Chinese General (Dana Lee) who demanded funds.He remembered how - as a privileged young man - he had given up college to volunteer for military service, and hat he admired other lowly and disposable "grunts" (mostly teenaged male high-school dropouts from small towns, all poor, black and Hispanic) as the "heart and soul" of he war effort, used as infantry bait:(voice-over)Of course, Mom and Dad didn""t want me o come here.Your kind always does.Maggie: Oh, I""m more determined than you think.I""ll win all right.Brick: Win what?What is, uh, the victory of a cat on a hot in roof?Maggie:Just stayin"" on it, I guess.Directed by Irving Rapper, its screenplay by Casey Robinson was based on the 1941 novel by Olive Higgins Prouty (who also wroteStella Dallas).