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What Price Glory
The New "What Price Glory"
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. But when they discover that the woman has marriage in mind, they now compete to try to avoid marching down the aisle - that is, until they are called upon to march into battle.
- Original title
- What Price Glory
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
- Budget
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- Revenue
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CinemaSerf
Aug 24, 2024 · via TMDB
"Capt. Flagg" (James Cagney) leads a squadron of American marines in France towards the end of the Great War and is unexpectedly reunited with his rival in just about everything, "Sgt. Quirt" (Dan Dailey). Despite their differences in rank, the two compete on an even playing field most of the time - usually fuelled by booze and because they are chasing the same girl. The latter, in this instance, is "Charmaine" (Corinne Calvet) but what neither man realises is that she's got an agenda of her own, and her father is out to help her too - to get an husband. What now ensues sees the grimness of the war tempered by some light-hearted humour, but Cagney isn't really given enough to challenge him by John Ford and the film sort of crawls along in a very procedural fashion with too little action to sustain it's almost two hour duration. Though it would probably have been below his pay grade, I kept thinking that Sterling Hayden would have made for a better antagonist for "Flagg" but the scenes with Dailey and Cagney do inject some life here, and the narrative does sometimes remind us of the trauma of war, but for the most part I felt this a rather lacklustre effort from all concerned that isn't really very funny and that I'll quickly forget.
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James Cagney
Captain Flagg
Dan Dailey
Sergeant Quirt
Corinne Calvet
Charmaine
Robert Wagner
Private Lewisohn
William Demarest
Corporal Kiper
Henri Letondal
Cognac Pete
Craig Hill
Lieutenant Aldrich
Marisa Pavan
Nicole Bouchard
Max Showalter
Lieutenant Moore
James Gleason
General Cokely
Wally Vernon
Lipinsky
Torben Meyer
Mayor
Harry Morgan
Sergeant Moran
Lee MacGregor
Young Marine
John Ford
Director
Dorothy Spencer
Editor
Sol C. Siegel
Producer
Alfred Newman
Music
Maxwell Anderson
Theatre Play
The Tasty Florida
Lilies
Undead Lovers
Power Bank
White Nights
The Valley of Decision
Heroes for Sale
Love Has Fallen
Recently, My Sister Is Unusual
Cyrano de Bergerac
Hot Road
Over the Sky
Hell to Eternity
The Grass Harp
Miss Sadie Thompson
Summer
Fighting Tommy Riley
I Dreamt Under the Water
Les Misérables
Distant Camera
Purple Hearts
The Best Years of Our Lives
The Best of Me
Persuasion
The Lucky One
5 to 7
Pearl Harbor
Dear John
The Mirror Has Two Faces
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
The Last Rifleman
Private Peaceful
The History of Love
Racing with the Moon
All for Love
The Wings of Eagles
Not Easily Broken
Coyote Ugly
Which Brings Me to You
Chéri
Aug 22, 1952
