A young black recruit named Francis (Corey Glover) corrected his African-American buddy King (Keith David) as he was scrawling a letter home with a pencil:Francis: It ain""t D-E-R-E, it""s D-E-A-R, and Sarah ain""t got no two Rs, King.] After they are pronounced "man and wife" and the celebration begins, Kane finds privacy in an adjoining room with his new wife and promises: "I""m gonna try, Amy, I""ll do my best...even for a woman!"WARDEN: "...who wouldn""t do it...even for her..."MONTGOMERY CLIFT: "Prew was a hardhead, the tougher it got...the better he liked it!"PREW: "...who wanted to be left alone..."DEBORAH KERR: "Looks colder""n an iceberg, but she knows the score.And I know who taught her."KAREN: "...who was looking for a real man..."FRANK SINATRA: "He""s such a comical little runt.He makes me want to cry while I""m laughin"" at him."MAGGIO: "...you just have to laugh at him..."DONNA REED: "Sure I""m nice to you.We""re nice to all the boys."LORENE: "...to look at her you""d never guess..."[Note: If casting decisions had gone differently, Aldo Ray, Edmond O""Brien, Joan Crawford, Julie Harris, and Eli Wallach would have played the roles given to Clift, Lancaster, Kerr, Reed, and Sinatra, respectively.Cinematographer Ernest Lazlo had worked on another famous, earlier film noir,D.O.A.(1950), which prepared him for this film.In both, he used German expressionistic lighting and shadows, reminiscient ofThe Cabinet of Dr.Caligari (1920).This independent film features a cheap and sleazy, contemptible, fascistic private investigator/vigilante named Mike Hammer whose trademarks are brutish violence, the end-justifies-the-means philosophy and speed.When the launch was scrubbed, the abortion of the booster ignition failed, the shuttle""s couplings holding it to the jumbo jet wouldn""t disengage due to jamming and a malfunctioning misfire, and a remote override also failed.