Hail the Conquering Hero

• 7.0 Comedy
• 1944-08-09
• 101 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Eddie Bracken (Woodrow Truesmith) Ella Raines (Libby) Raymond Walburn (Mayor Everett D. Noble) William Demarest (Sgt. Heppelfinger) Franklin Pangborn (Reception Committee Chairman) Elizabeth Patterson (Martha - Libby's Aunt) Georgia Caine (Mrs. Truesmith) Al Bridge (Political Boss) Freddie Steele (Bugsy) Bill Edwards (Forrest Noble)

Director:

Preston Sturges

Writer:

Preston Sturges