1. The isolated
male group involved in a life-and-death task.
2. The group,
composed of distinct types, that relies both on teamwork and individual
exploits.
3. Professionalism
and stoicism in the face of danger and death.
4. Outsiders who
enter the group and become threats to it.
5. The outsiders’
need to win admission into the group.
adapted from Robert B.
Ray, A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1980 (Princeton,
1985), pp. 115-18.