Hawks provides beautiful thoughts and concerns about how a group of professionals must stick together to fight fear and death, an idea that would give depth to his best films in the future. The love triangle -- the nurse, the lieutenant and his boss -- struggles after 30 minutes, but The Road to Glory becomes immense near the end, after the squad tries to install a phone line in the battlefield -- the horizontal travelling is superb -- , father and son dying, and the final Hawksian monologue.