Salute to the Marines

Salute to the Marines

101 mins | Drama, Comedy, War | Sept. 2, 1943

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.

Salute to the Marines

101 mins | Drama, Comedy, War | Sept. 2, 1943

Salute to the Marines

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.

IMDb rating	6.4
Producers	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title	Salute to the Marines
Directors	S. Sylvan Simon
Writers	Robert Hardy Andrews, Wells Root, George Bruce

Cast

Wallace Beery

as Sgt. Maj. William Bailey

Fay Bainter

as Jennie Bailey

Reginald Owen

as Mr. Henry Casper

Ray Collins

as Col. John Mason

Keye Luke

as 'Flashy' Logaz

Marilyn Maxwell

as Helen Bailey

William Lundigan

as Rufus Cleveland

Donald Curtis

as Randall James

Noah Beery

as Adjutant

Dick Curtis

as Cpl. Mosley

Russell Gleason

as Pvt. Hanks

Rose Hobart

as Mrs. Carson