Thirty years ago Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson locked their eyes, clenched their jaws and let fly in one of the most magnificent shouting matches in cinema history.

The climax of A Few Good Men has been overquoted to the point of exhaustion, but the self-righteous fury of Nicholson’s Col Jessup yelling at Cruise’s Lt Kaffee that he “can’t handle the truth”, still burns brightly after three decades...

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