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Hail the Conquering Hero (1944) Plot Summary Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1944 · 101 mins · English
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- Directed by
- Preston Sturges
- Starring
- Torben Meyer, Elizabeth Patterson, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn, Arthur Hoyt, Robert Warwick
Discharged from the Marines due to a hay‑fever condition before seeing combat, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith feels like a failure and hesitates to return home. In his sadness he meets a group of Marines who befriend him and, to spare his mother pain, fabricate a story that he was discharged after being wounded in battle.
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