No one could play both snarling gangster and mild-mannered, henpecked husband as adeptly as Edward .G Robinson, and in this likeable war movie he's the latter.
I've never been much of a fan of Edward G in his more famous gangster roles, but here he goes against the tough-guy image and plays a quiet, hen-pecked husband who decides he must go his own way. He starts his own workshop but his unsupportive wife doesn't let him do much with it and when his Draft papers arrive he seems glad to get out.
Plainly aimed at waverers during World War II, this is a strange credit for screenwriter Waldo Salt, blacklisted in 1951 before (much) later bouncing back with his Oscar-winning scripts for 'Midnight Cowboy' and the anti-Vietnam 'Coming Home'.Considering the title, it takes Wilbert Winkle (a name that sounds remarkably similar to Wendell Willkie, one of the few Republican interventionists prior to Pearl Harbor) a surprisingly long time even to get posted to duty in the Pacific; and he actually pesters those in charge not to give him the desk job for which he's obviously best suited but on the front line.
Mr Winkle goes to war is a wonderful movie about life during WWII when America was controlled and run by decent God fearing men of decent upright moral character (unlike today).Mr Wilbert Winkle was an honest morally upright patriotic American !
An earnest attempt to boost morale during the Second World War, this 1944 trifle stars Edward G. Robinson as a modest banker who dreams of owning a fix-it shop.
Mr. Winkle Goes to War (1944) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Edward G.
I'll watch any movie Edward G. Robinson did and i think he's a better actor than James Cagney.
Edward G Robinson is wonderful as Wilbert Winkle. A meek and short man that has several problems.
This picked on banker goes and get's drafted. He is always taking pills for some ailment, but once he goes into training with the Army, he's a changed man.
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