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Hail the Conquering Hero
Why this pick
Sturges again turns a small town’s eager morality and patriotic fervor into a fast, escalating farce, with an ordinary man trapped by a lie that becomes too elaborate to escape.
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MOVIE1943 1h 38m USA
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The Major and the Minor
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) is a small-town girl with a soft spot for soldiers. She wakes up one morning after a wild farewell party for a group of them to find that while drunk the night before, she married a soldier whose name she can't remember, except that "it had a ''z'' in it. Like Ratzkywatzky [...] or was it Zitzkywitzky?" She believes they both used fake names and she doesn't know how to get in touch with him or even what he looks like.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Eddie Bracken
Norval Jones
Betty Hutton
Trudy Kockenlocker
Diana Lynn
Emmy Kockenlocker
William Demarest
Constable Edmund Kockenlocker
Emory Parnell
Mr. Tuerck
Al Bridge
Mr. Johnson
Victor Potel
Newspaper Editor
Brian Donlevy
Governor McGinty