What Price Glory? (1952 film)

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name = What Price Glory


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director = John Ford
producer = Sol C. Siegel
writer = Henry Ephron
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starring = Dan Dailey
James Cagney
Corinne Calvet
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distributor = 20th Century-Fox
released = 1952
runtime = 111 min.
country = USA
language = English / French
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imdb_id = 0045323

"What Price Glory" is a 1952 World War I film based on a 1924 play by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings, [citebook|title=Art, Glitter, and Glitz: Mainstream Playwrights and Popular Theatre in 1920s America |author= Arthur Gewirtz, James J. Kolb|year= 2004|publisher=Praeger/GreenwoodPlays |url= http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0313324670&id=zrJfQro64mAC&pg=RA1-PA77&lpg=RA1-PA77&dq=%22What+Price+Glory%3F%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&output=html&sig=4HBjYDfkSMBvtj5e5NWcukyCi70|id=ISBN 0313324670 ] though it used virtually none of Anderson's dialogue. Originally intended as a musical, it was filmed as a straight drama, directed by John Ford and released by 20th Century Fox on 22 August 1952 in the U.S. It starred James Cagney and Dan Dailey as US Marines in World War I.

Plot

Flagg and Quirt are veteran United States Marines whose rivalry dates back a number of years. Flagg, now a captain, is in command of a unit on the front lines of France during World War I. Sergeant Quirt is assigned to Flagg's unit as the senior non-commissioned officer. Flagg and Quirt quickly resume their rivalry which this time takes its form over the affections of Charmaine, the daughter of the local innkeeper. However, Charmaine's desire for a husband and the reality of war give the two men a common cause.

Cast

* James Cagney as Captain Flagg
* Corinne Calvet as Charmaine
* Dan Dailey as 1st Sergeant Quirt
* William Demarest as Corporal Kiper
* Craig Hill as Lieutenant Aldrich
* Robert Wagner as Private Lewisohn
* Marisa Pavan as Nicole Bouchard
* Max Showalter as Lieutenant Moore (as Casey Adams)
* James Gleason as General Cokely
* Wally Vernon as Lipinsky
* Henri Letondal as Cognac Pete (Charmaine's father)

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