The Private War of Major Benson (1955)

Directors

Jerry Hopper

Cast

Charlton Heston, Julie Adams, William Demarest, Tim Hovey

The story

Major Barney Benson, a hard-bitten combat soldier of World War II and the Korean Conflict with a Distinguished Service Cross, a Silver Star, and a 2nd Award of the Combat Infantry Badge, runs afoul of the Army bureaucracy with his theories concerning troop training in peacetime. As penance for ruffling the military's feathers, he is assigned as the Commandant of Sheridan Military Academy, a boys military school run by Roman Catholic nuns under the JROTC system. Benson is not happy about his assignment, though he fancies the school's doctor, Kay Lambert, who returns his attentions.

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