- Salute to the Marines
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director =S. Sylvan Simon
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starring =Wallace Beery Fay Bainter
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released = 1943
runtime = 101 min.
country =U.S.A.
language = English
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imdb_id = 0036328"Salute to the Marines" is a 1943
World War II movie starringWallace Beery . The movie, set in thePhilippines and shot in color (inHollywood ), was directed byS. Sylvan Simon . It is a comic bookpropaganda film which has Berry as a retired USMC NCO-who when the Japanese attack the Philippines-leads a heroic defense first by strangling a Nazi agent and then dies in his "dress blues uniform" while blowing up a bridge.Cast
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Wallace Beery as Sgt. Maj. William Bailey
*Fay Bainter as Jenny Bailey
*Reginald Owen as Henry Caspar
*Ray Collins as Col. John Mason
*Keye Luke as Flashy Logaz
*Marilyn Maxwell as Helen Bailey
*William Lundigan as Rufus Cleveland
*Donald Curtis as Randall James
*Noah Beery, Sr. as Adjutant
*Dick Curtis as Cpl. Moseley
*Russell Gleason as Pvt. Hanks
*Rose Hobart as Mrs. Carson
*Hugh Beaumont as Sergeant (uncredited)
*Robert Blake as Junior Carson (uncredited)
*Jim Davis as Pvt. Saunders (uncredited)External links
*imdb title|id=0036328|title=Salute to the Marines
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