Hail the Conquering Hero

Movie

Comedy

War

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.

Date: 08/09/1944

Rating: 7.0

Cast: 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

Eddie Bracken