Hail the Conquering Hero
Comedy
War
MIRACLES DO HAPPEN!
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.
1944-08-09
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Cast
Director
Preston Sturges
Eddie Bracken as Woodrow Truesmith
Ella Raines as Libby
Raymond Walburn as Mayor Everett J. Noble
William Demarest as Sgt. Heppelfinger
Franklin Pangborn as Reception Committee Chairman
Elizabeth Patterson as Martha - Libby's Aunt
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
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)
Miriam Nelson as Tap Dancer (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)
Nora Cecil as Train Ticket Clerk (uncredited)
Dot Farley as Mamie's Mother (uncredited)
Jim Farley as Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)
Franklyn Farnum as Town Councilman (uncredited)
Julie Gibson as Singer (uncredited)
Mildred Harris as Wife of Marine Colonel (uncredited)
Philo McCullough as Town Councilman (uncredited)
George Melford as Sheriff (uncredited)
Charles R. Moore as The Porter (uncredited)
Jack Norton as Second Bandleader (uncredited)
Harry 'Snub' Pollard as Townsman (uncredited)
Paul Porcasi as Cafe Owner (uncredited)
Victor Potel as Progressive Bandleader (uncredited)