A World War II football game makes The Mosquito Bowl into a macho-movie caricature

American college football players, now eager Marines, explain the concept of “nuance” to each other partway through the pandering WWII drama The Mosquito Bowl. It’s an unfortunately instructive sequence since one of the men confuses the term with “nuisance” after his superior officer, Sergeant Wilkes (Dominic Bogart), insists that he wouldn’t understand what the Americans were trying to do during the Battle Of Okinawa.