Overview
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.
Details
- Director
- Preston Sturges
- Writer
- Preston Sturges
- Original Language
- English
- Budget
- N/A
Cast
Al Bridge
Bill Edwards
Eddie Bracken
Elizabeth Patterson
Ella Raines
Franklin Pangborn
Freddie Steele
Georgia Caine
Raymond Walburn
William Demarest
Keywords
allergies
confession
dead father
false pretenses
hero
hero worship
hero's fall
honorable
lie
mayor
mayoral election
military discharge
mother
reluctant hero
return to hometown
satire
small town
taken under wing
truth
u.s. marine
u.s. marine corps
war hero
world war ii
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