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Film · 1944
Hail the Conquering Hero
1h 41mNRDirected by Preston Sturges
- Comedy
- War
MIRACLES DO HAPPEN!
Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.
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Cast
Eddie BrackenWoodrow Truesmith
Ella RainesLibby
Raymond WalburnMayor Everett J. Noble
William DemarestSgt. Heppelfinger
Franklin PangbornReception Committee Chairman
Elizabeth PattersonMartha - Libby's Aunt
Georgia CaineMrs. Truesmith
Al BridgePolitical Boss
Freddie SteeleBugsy
Bill EdwardsForrest Noble
Harry HaydenDoc Bissell
Jimmy ConlinJudge Dennis
Details
- Director
- Preston Sturges
- Writer
- Preston Sturges
- Music
- Werner R. Heymann
- Cinematography
- John F. Seitz
- Editor
- Stuart Gilmore
- Producer
- Preston Sturges
- Release
- August 9, 1944
- Runtime
- 1h 41m
- Rated
- NR
- Language
- English
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures
- TMDB score
- 7.2 / 10 from 80 votes
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