Hail the Conquering Hero
Film - 1944
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Hail the Conquering Hero it's a movie with Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn Full cast. Directed by Preston Sturges. Original title Hail the Conquering Hero, runtime 101 minutes. Genres Commedia, War.
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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.