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Hail the Conquering Hero

08/09/1944

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1hr 41min

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Comedy

,War

MIRACLES DO HAPPEN!

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Eddie Bracken
  • Ella Raines
  • Raymond Walburn
  • William Demarest
  • Franklin Pangborn

    Directors

  • Preston Sturges
  • Harve Foster
  • Howard Joslin

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Paramount Pictures

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • English

Cast

Eddie Bracken

Woodrow Truesmith

Ella Raines

Libby

Raymond Walburn

Mayor Everett J. Noble

William Demarest

Sgt. Heppelfinger

Franklin Pangborn

Reception Committee Chairman

Elizabeth Patterson

Martha - Libby's Aunt

Georgia Caine

Mrs. Truesmith

Al Bridge

Political Boss

Freddie Steele

Bugsy

Bill Edwards

Forrest Noble

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