Hail the Conquering Hero
(1944)
★ 7.1 IMDb · 77 votes
Year: 1944
Runtime: 101 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Preston Sturges
Cast: Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Элизабет Паттерсон, Джорджия Кейн, Al Bridge, Freddie Steele, Bill Edwards
Plot
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.