Hail the Conquering Hero
MIRACLES DO HAPPEN!
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- Comedy
- War
Overview
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.
Keywords
- truth
- world war ii
- hero
- small town
- satire
- war hero
- u.s. marine
- mayoral election
- mother
- lie
- mayor
- confession
- dead father
- honorable
- reluctant hero
- return to hometown
- marine corps
- military discharge
- u.s. marine corps
- hero worship
- false pretenses
- taken under wing
- hero's fall
- allergies
- deceased father
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 9, 1944
- Original language
- English
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Paramount,Paramount Pictures
- Cast
- Eddie Bracken,Ella Raines,Raymond Walburn,William Demarest,Franklin Pangborn,Elizabeth Patterson,Georgia Caine,Al Bridge,Freddie Steele,Bill Edwardsand 41 more
- Director
- Preston Sturges
- Writer
- Preston Sturges
- Producer
- Buddy G. DeSylva,Preston Sturges
- Cinematography
- John F. Seitz
- Music
- Werner R. Heymann
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
- tt0036891