In this amiable little situation com edy, Paul Newman is Private No-Class Harry Frigg, who is so unskillful at concealing his contempt for the World War II brass that he is .
He criticized the Government for its "unwise, unskillful appeal to the masses," hinted that Britain's Home Office had deliberately "exaggerated the gas risk.
Summoning reporters and photographers, he demonstrated a Danish gadget guaranteed to be proof against both nervous sprinters and unskillful starting officials.