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Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Directed by Preston Sturges
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.
Rated NR | Length 101 minutes
Actors
Eddie Bracken | Ella Raines | Raymond Walburn | William Demarest | Franklin Pangborn | Elizabeth Patterson | Georgia Caine | Al Bridge | Freddie Steele | Bill Edwards | Harry Hayden | Jimmy Conlin | Jimmie Dundee | Chester Conklin | Eddie Hall | Tom McGuire | Frank Moran | Dewey Robinson | Robert Warwick | Miriam Nelson | Esther Howard | Bess Flowers | Torben Meyer | Arthur Hoyt | George Anderson | Nora Cecil | Pauline Drake | Dot Farley | Jim Farley | Franklyn Farnum | Maxine Fife | Julie Gibson | Kenneth Gibson | Stephen Gregory | Mildred Harris | Len Hendry | Earl Hunsaker | Henry Iblings | Tiny Jones | Dudley Kuzelle | Philo McCullough | George Melford | Charles R. Moore | Marjean Neville | Jack Norton | 'Snub' Pollard | Paul Porcasi | Victor Potel | Merrill Rodin | John Sinclair | Hal Taggart