Hail the Conquering Hero

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Hail the Conquering Hero

film by Sturges [1944]

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Preston Sturges
Films of the mid-1940s to mid-1950s
…also at the centre of Hail the Conquering Hero (1944), Sturges’s incisive satire on America’s propensity for hero worship. This time Backen played a Marine who, having been discharged from the service because he suffered from hay fever, returns home to family and friends who not only believe that he…
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…also at the centre of Hail the Conquering Hero (1944), Sturges’s incisive satire on America’s propensity for hero worship. This time Backen played a Marine who, having been discharged from the service because he suffered from hay fever, returns home to family and friends who not only believe that he…
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