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The two capture a German colonel, but, while bringing him back to the American lines, they are hit by a German barrage, killing the colonel and wounding Quirt. Quirt taunts Flagg with the fact that he will be returning to the village first, giving him the first shot at Charmaine.
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What Price Glory: Directed by John Ford. With James Cagney, Corinne Calvet, Dan Dailey, William Demarest. The wartime romantic misadventures of Captain Flagg, commander of a company of US Marines in 1918 France.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- John Ford
- 1953-01-28
May 11, 2021 · A broad comedy about two Marines in a French village who fight over a beautiful girl way above their pay grade—and neither realizes it—who then go to the front to fight pointlessly and allow a bit player to condemn them with a melodramatic speech that includes the title phrase. A mess, in other words. Nasty boys.
When it hit the boards in 1949 as a fund-raiser for the Military Order of the Purple Heart, Ford's version of "What Price Glory?" featured one of the first true all-star casts to grace the stage, from top box office stars to well-known character actors.
…the World War I comedy What Price Glory? (1924), his first hit, a realistically ribald and profane view of World War I. Saturday’s Children (1927), about the marital problems of a young couple, was also very successful.
WHAT PRICE GLORY (1952) USA, colour, 106m. Directed by John Ford. Inspired by a 1924 Smash Hit Broadway play by Maxwell Anderson and Lawrence Stallings, that was made as a 1926 silent film by Raoul Walsh. This World War I film has Jimmy Cagney, Dan Dailey and Corinne Calvet in the middle.
