At an Army barracks in Hawaii in the days preceding the attack on
Pearl Harbor, lone-wolf soldier and boxing champion "Prew" Prewitt
(Montgomery Clift) refuses to box, preferring to play the bugle instead.
Hard-hearted Capt. Holmes (Philip Ober) subjects Prew to a grueling
series of punishments while, unknown to Holmes, the
gruff but fair Sgt. Warden (Burt Lancaster) engages in a clandestine
affair with the captain's mistreated wife (Deborah Kerr).
