Days of Glory

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Days of Glory

film by Tourneur [1944]

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Jacques Tourneur
Films of the 1940s at RKO: Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, and Out of the Past
…rewarded with RKO’s ballyhooed production Days of Glory (1944), in which Gregory Peck made his screen debut as a heroic Russian peasant fighting the Nazi occupiers. It was timely and earnest, though seldom exciting. Experiment Perilous (1944) was a gothic thriller set in 1903 New York featuring Hedy Lamarr; it…
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…rewarded with RKO’s ballyhooed production Days of Glory (1944), in which Gregory Peck made his screen debut as a heroic Russian peasant fighting the Nazi occupiers. It was timely and earnest, though seldom exciting. Experiment Perilous (1944) was a gothic thriller set in 1903 New York featuring Hedy Lamarr; it…
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Gregory Peck
…a Russian guerrilla fighter in Days of Glory (1944). Because of an earlier spinal injury, he was unable to serve in World War II. This circumstance enabled him to emerge as one of the most popular leading men of the 1940s. He earned his first Academy Award nomination for his…
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…a Russian guerrilla fighter in Days of Glory (1944). Because of an earlier spinal injury, he was unable to serve in World War II. This circumstance enabled him to emerge as one of the most popular leading men of the 1940s. He earned his first Academy Award nomination for his…
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