Filmed in widescreen VistaVision, its leisurely tone is decidedly European, with pictorial exotic settings (i.They are separated and Pran is forced to remain when Schanberg and other American journalists and Westerners evacuate to escape a life-threatening situation in occupied-Cambodia during the fall of Phnom Penh in 1975.On his arrival, Julie asks about his duel with Lautruc to defend her honor: "Is it true you killed him?" He admits: "It just looked like a busted hip to me.You should know that in the Army it""s not the individual that counts.Well, you""ll find that we won""t put any pressure on you in my outfit.Just don""t make any mistakes in it, that""s all.The tough but fair and by-the-book First Sergeant Warden has little respect for the arrogant commander who leaves the running of the company to him: "He""d strangle in his own spit if he didn""t have me around here to swab his throat out for him.