Hail the Conquering Hero

Comedy

1944

1h 41m

Like his war-hero father who was killed in action during World War I, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) leaves his small town to join the Marines during World War II. But when he's given a medical discharge after only a month, he takes a job at a San Diego shipyard and writes letters to his mother about his fictitious wartime exploits. When he returns home, he discovers that his innocent lies have spread further than he expected.

Starring	Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines, William Demarest, Bill Edwards, Raymond Walburn, Jimmie Dundee, Freddie Steele, Georgia Caine, Al Bridge, James Damore, Stephen Gregory, Esther Howard, Jimmy Conlin, Arthur Hoyt, Harry Hayden, Franklin Pangborn, Victor Potel, Torben Meyer, Jack Norton, Chester Conklin, Dot Farley, Julie Gibson, Paul Porcasi, Franklin Farnum, Kenneth Gibson, Philo McCullough, Tom McGuire, Dewey Robinson, Robert Warwick, Elizabeth Patterson
Genres	Comedy
Studios	Universal Studios
Popular UPC	2519209100