BackgroundThe witty and likeable, lightweight, old-fashioned romantic comedy,When Harry Met Sally...(1989) was intended to answer the sexual politics question:"Can two friends sleep together and still love each other in the morning?"The engaging, episodic film keenly observes romance, relationships between males and females, friendship and sex.The chain-gang prison film (e.g.,I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932)) has a long history in American films, and this one also provided entertaining performances, especially with Paul Newman in one of his best roles as masochistic Luke, after playing similar anti-heroes inThe Hustler (1961)andHud (1963).Forsythe (Franchot Tone) and inexperienced Lt.Donald Stone (Richard Cromwell) - the raw and untested son of the garrison""s high-ranking commander.[Major Hamilton had arranged - without the knowledge of the colonel - for his son o be with the Bengal Lancers.In the baby""s bedroom, she stared at the crib of her infant daughter and imagined crib death: "Rudyard, she""s not breathing.