The read
Critics rate it 19 points higher than audiences do.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.6/10
Rotten Tomatoes95%
Critics rate it 19 points higher than audiences do.
78 audience votes
Key crew
- Preston SturgesDirector
- Preston SturgesWriter
- Werner R. HeymannOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- 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