Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges, 1944)
Rating: 9.6
A brilliant screenplay satire written and directed by Strurges, that criticizes commodified heroism, politics, and family values. Eddie Brackens is terrific as Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith, a Marine dismissed for chronic hay fever before ever seeing action. He meets a group of Marines who encourage him to tell a little white lie about his heroics at war to his mother which in turn escalates to a statue being made in his honor and the townspeople insisting he run for mayor. Woodrow becomes the symbolic embodiment of untold stories of heroics. The beautiful Ella Raines with her captivating screen presence plays Woodrow's love interest, Libby.
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