It was the first war film of its kind to tell its story from the viewpoint of the GI.Handsome matinee silent screen idol John Gilbert gave his greatest acting performance in a star-making role as one of three Americans who enlisted and was swept into the war in France.After pausing - when he stares at it and considers his pride, Dobbs loses the butt to a Mexican street urchin who beats him to it.After getting her to finally answer the phone, he grabs it away from her when he learns that the caller is the Ideal Pay As You Go Plan Furniture Company - threatening to repossess the furniture.The talented Chicago-based Dr.John Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift) (Cukrowicz means "sugar" in Polish) was a sensitive-minded, brilliant psychiatric neuro-surgeon who was about to perform a frontal lobotomy on a female patient - it was the first psycho-surgery operation in he state "on the brain of a woman suffering from acute schizophrenic withdrawal.