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$14.98
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Format: VHS
Nov 1990
Not Rated
Recording Mode: (unknown)
Sound: HiFi
Closed Captioned
101 min.
UPC: 096898102131 |
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Movie Description
In Preston Sturges's ironic comedy HAIL THE CONQUERING HERO, a soldier who is discharged from the army for hay fever is welcomed home as a brave war hero.
Synopsis
This brilliant wartime satire from writer-director-producer Preston Sturges is all the more remarkable considering it was made during wartime. Eddie Bracken plays the scrawny Woodrow LaFayette Pershing Truesmith, son of a World War I hero, who enlists and is immediately sent home for having chronic hay fever. Terrified of ruining his family’s valiant reputation, he hides in disguise in a shipyard as a worker while pretending to be overseas until he is forcibly returned by six sympathetic Marines who hear his story. When a glitch in the telephone wires translates "hay" into "jungle," he is horrified to find he is being given a Pacific war hero’s welcome. Things only get worse when he is nominated as a candidate for mayor. No American sacred icon, from mom to apple pie to heroic fathers, is safe from this incredible blend of satire and slapstick. The film remains a great comedy of manners, complete with dizzying dialogue and an amazing gallery of Sturgesesque characters, shot beautifully in black and white by John F. Seitz.
Film Notes
Copyright 1944 Paramount Pictures, Inc. Renewed 1971 by EMKA.
Industry Reviews
"...[A] masterpiece, which deftly mixes Capra sentiment with Sturges' bumpkin satire..."
USA Today - Mike Clark (11/06/1990)
"Fast, furious and full of snappy dialogue."
Uncut - Brian Case (08/01/2005)
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