Salute to the Marines (1943)

7.2/10 101 min Comedy Drama War

Overview

It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.

Cast

Wallace Beery

Sgt. Maj. William Bailey

Fay Bainter

Jennie Bailey

Reginald Owen

Mr. Henry Casper

Ray Collins

Col. John Mason

Keye Luke

'Flashy' Logaz

Marilyn Maxwell

Helen Bailey

William Lundigan

Rufus Cleveland

Donald Curtis

Randall James

Noah Beery

Adjutant

Dick Curtis

Cpl. Mosley

Russell Gleason

Pvt. Hanks

Rose Hobart

Mrs. Carson

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