Salute to the Marines (1943)
Rough! Romantic! Rarin' to go!
101 min
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.
- Release date
- September 2, 1943
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Wallace Beery as Sgt. Maj. William Bailey
- Fay Bainter as Jennie Bailey
- Reginald Owen as Mr. Caspar
- Keye Luke as 'Flashy' Logaz
- Ray Collins as Colonel Mason
- Marilyn Maxwell as Helen Bailey
- William Lundigan as Rufus Cleveland
- Donald Curtis as Randall James
- Noah Beery as Adjutant
- Dick Curtis as Corporal Mosley
Crew
- S. Sylvan Simon · Director
- Robert Hardy Andrews · Writer
- Wells Root · Writer
- George Bruce · Writer
- John W. Considine Jr. · Producer
- Lennie Hayton · Composer
- W. Howard Greene · Cinematographer
- Charles Edgar Schoenbaum · Cinematographer
- Fredrick Y. Smith · Editor