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What Price Glory is a 1952 American Technicolor war film based on a 1924 play by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings, [3] though it used virtually none of Anderson's dialogue. [4] Originally intended as a musical, it was filmed as a straight comedy-drama, directed by John Ford and released by 20th Century Fox on August 22, 1952, in the U.S.
Two military men, Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt, who are rivals to begin with, grow more at odds with each other when Quirt is made Flagg's top sergeant. And when a local beauty comes between them, their rivalry escalates even further.
Mar 25, 2023 · The wartime romantic misadventures of Captain Flagg, commander of a company of US Marines in 1918 France.
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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.
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- John Ford
Aug 27, 2007 · According to Walsh’s not necessarily reliable memoirs, “In four weeks at New York’s Roxy Theater, What Price Glory? grossed $780,000. For the final two weeks, by public demand, it ran continuously for twenty-four hours a day”, (1) thus justifying the record $100,000 Fox paid for the rights to the already established stage hit.
- Robert Keser
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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Original title: What Price Glory. Synopsis: James Cagney signed on to play Captain Flagg in 20th Century Fox's 1952 remake of the 1926 classic What Price Glory after being told that the old property was being converted into a musical.
