Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
MIRACLES DO HAPPEN!
101 min
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.
- Release date
- August 9, 1944
- Country of origin
- United States
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Trailer
Cast
- Eddie Bracken as Woodrow Truesmith
- Ella Raines as Libby
- Raymond Walburn as Mayor Everett J. Noble
- William Demarest as Sgt. Heffelfinger
- Franklin Pangborn as Reception Committee Chairman
- Elizabeth Patterson as Aunt Martha
- Georgia Caine as Mrs. Truesmith
- Al Bridge as Political Boss
- Freddie Steele as Bugsy
- Bill Edwards as Forrest Noble
- Harry Hayden as Doc Bissell
- Jimmy Conlin as Judge Dennis
- Jimmie Dundee as Cpl. Candida
- Chester Conklin as Western Union Man (uncredited)
- Eddie Hall as Man Swigging Beer at the Bar (uncredited)
- Tom McGuire as Town Councilman (uncredited)
- Frank Moran as Town Painter (uncredited)
- Dewey Robinson as Train Conductor (uncredited)
- Robert Warwick as Marine Colonel (uncredited)
- Esther Howard as Mrs. Everett J. Noble (uncredited)
- Bess Flowers as Woman at Train Station (uncredited)
- Torben Meyer as Mr. Schultz (uncredited)
- Arthur Hoyt as Rev. Upperman (uncredited)
- George Anderson as Bartender (uncredited)
- Nora Cecil as Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
- Pauline Drake as Telephone Operator (uncredited)
- Dot Farley as Mamie's Mother (uncredited)
- Jim Farley as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
- Franklyn Farnum as Town Councilman (uncredited)
- Bill Edwards as Forrest Noble
Crew
- Preston Sturges · Director
- Preston Sturges · Writer
- Werner R. Heymann · Composer
- John F. Seitz · Cinematographer
- Stuart Gilmore · Editor