James Warren leaves the wife and kids. He also leaves a letter explaining why.
It's an odd episode of THE PASSING PARADE, John Nesbitt's long-running series of shorts for MGM. It paralleled a similar feature he did on the radio, same name. But the question of why a man would leave home and hearth because of a long-held wanderlust during the Second World War, when he might likely as not shortly get a letter from the government, beginning "Greetings!" haunts me. Was Nesbitt hinting that a draftee might get shipped to some South Seas port where he might live a care-free existence among half-naked Polynesian women?