Hail the Conquering Hero

Year: 1944

Runtime: 101 mins

Language: English

Director: Preston Sturges

ComedyWarWar and historical adventureAmusing jokes and witty satireMilitary combat and heroic soldiers

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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