Hail the Conquering Hero

Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.

• Preston SturgesDirector
• Preston SturgesWriter
• Werner R. HeymannOriginal Music Composer

• Eddie BrackenWoodrow Truesmith
• Ella RainesLibby
• Raymond WalburnMayor Everett J. Noble
• William DemarestSgt. Heppelfinger
• Franklin PangbornReception Committee Chairman
• Elizabeth PattersonMartha - Libby's Aunt
• Georgia CaineMrs. Truesmith
• Al BridgePolitical Boss
• Freddie SteeleBugsy
• Bill EdwardsForrest Noble
• Harry HaydenDoc Bissell
• Jimmy ConlinJudge Dennis