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Truce or no truce, Hollywood is still fighting a rearguard action in Korea.

Sabre Jet (United Artists) is a picture dedicated to explaining the importance of sex to the American air effort in Korea. Pilots' wives were in some cases permitted to join their husbands in Japan, and according to this script, it was the thought of the little woman waiting at the gate of the air base after every mission that kept the boys flying. Except for a few routine shots of some gleaming Sabres, the film is devoted to a lot of thick talk about getting to bed early and to some aggressively cheerful gynecologic humor: "Oh, morning sickness the whole darn day"; "There's nothing wrong with me that three, more months won't cure." The Cinecolor is something to see--all the blondes look like redheads, and the redheads are purple.

Cease Fire (Hal Wallis; Paramount), a picture made to show what happens at the front on a day when the communique says that nothing happened, proves that the communique pretty much tells the truth. A patrol goes out and wanders around most of a day without meeting the enemy. In the end there is more than a little shooting, and the patrol captures a hill. Producer Hal Wallis uses a straight documentary style, which is sometimes effective. Unfortunately, in his respect for facts he often forgets to respect his characters or his audience--as when the camera shows two piteously mangled corpses of enemy soldiers, then looks on with firm approval while one of the victors spits on the dead men.

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