Cody""s mother, behaving like a little old lady, answers all the questions (as Verna sniffles into her handkerchief) and even recommends the drive-in movie they all watched:Task Force.] Sergeant Shaw returns home a war-hero from the Korean conflict.His Air Force plane is met at the airport by cheering, patriotic crowds and a band.The narrator in voice-over describes how he is to be decorated as a Congressional Medal of Honor winner:This nation jealously guards its highest award for valor - the Congressional Medal of Honor.Nonetheless, it remains one of the most optimistic American films of the post-war period - with Paris at its center.The next day in her history class, Kris sleepily listened to a lecture, and dozed off:As she flipped through her textbook, she came across a page illustrating Freddy""s clawed hand, and found Freddy lecturing her in a darkened, burned and flooded classroom, taunting: "You look just as beautiful as ever.Alluring, ethereal and appealing (but often under-rated because of her "Ice Queen"-like persona) screen actress Gene Tierney - with sparkling green eyes - had recently received acclaim for her previous performances in Fox""s and Ernst Lubitsch""s dramatic comedyHeaven Can Wait (1943)opposite Don Ameche, and as the title character in Otto Preminger""s noirish mysteryLaura (1944).