The film""s main focus was a quadrangular love story between unequals: a conflicted 42 year-old divorced TV comedy writer, an optimistic 17 year-old prep-school sweetheart, a flighty, vascillating and intellectually-neurotic and cynical divorced female journalist, and a university literature teacher and cheating husband.Temple, from start to finish.You""d have been proud of him, like every man in his regiment was.....And with good reason.It wasn""t just a matter of doing his duty.He was always looking for a way o do more, and finding it.George was a born hero, Mr.Temple.He couldn""t imagine his death, only dishonor....It""s a wonder he lasted till Cassino."Nora: "When you believe like George believed, maybe dying isn""t very important."McCloud: "Once outside San Pietro, George and a couple of others established a forward observation post.Fearing being on the ocean where he was unsafe, Jack fled - and was found by Will on the cannibal-inhabited island of Pelegosto after he had run aground with thePearl- Jack was worshipped there as a god, but was about to be sacrificed on a spit above a fire...another lovely souvenir from the 20th Century.They weren""t satisfied with a bomb that could knock out a city.They finally built one with a cobalt casing all in the sweet name of peace." Brent worried that if it was launched, it could set off a chain reaction in the whole atmosphere - Taylor added: "Burn the planet to a cinder.