Hail the Conquering Hero

Hail the Conquering Hero

🎞️ Movie 101 min US
โ˜… 7.6 /10 1944

MIRACLES DO HAPPEN!

Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) 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. They make him wear a uniform complete with medals and is pushed by his new friends into accepting a Hero's welcome when he gets home where he is to be immortalized by a statue that he doesn't want, has songs written about his heroic battle stories, and ends up unwillingly running for mayor. Despite his best efforts to explain the truth, no one will listen.

Cast

Eddie Bracken
Eddie Bracken
Woodrow Truesmith
Ella Raines
Ella Raines
Libby
Raymond Walburn
Raymond Walburn
Mayor Everett J. Noble
William Demarest
William Demarest
Sgt. Heffelfinger
Franklin Pangborn
Franklin Pangborn
Reception Committee Chairman
Elizabeth Patterson
Elizabeth Patterson
Aunt Martha
Georgia Caine
Georgia Caine
Mrs. Truesmith
Al Bridge
Al Bridge
Political Boss
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Freddie Steele
Bugsy
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Bill Edwards
Forrest Noble
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Werner R. Heymann
Composer
John F. Seitz
John F. Seitz
Cinematographer