- Pride of the Marines
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name = Pride of the Marines
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director =Delmer Daves
producer =Jerry Wald
writer =Roger Butterfield (book)Albert Maltz Marvin Borowsky (adaptation)
Delmer Daves (uncredited)
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starring =John Garfield Eleanor Parker
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released =August 24 1945
runtime = 119 minutes
country = USA
language = English
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imdb_id = 0038000"Pride of the Marines" is a 1945 biographical
war film . starringJohn Garfield andEleanor Parker . It tells the story of U.S. Marine Al Schmid inWorld War II , his heroic stand against a Japanese attack during theBattle of Guadalcanal , in which he was blinded by agrenade , and his subsequent rehabilitation. The film was based on the Roger Butterfield book, "Al Schmid, Marine".Albert Maltz was nominated for anAcademy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay .Cast
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John Garfield as Al Schmid
*Eleanor Parker as Ruth Hartley
*Dane Clark as Lee Diamond
*John Ridgely as Jim Merchant
*Rosemary DeCamp as Virginia Pfeiffer
*Ann Doran as Ella May Merchant
*Ann E. Todd as Loretta MerchantExternal links
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* [http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent?file=ML_schmid_bkp military.com biography of Albert A. Schmid]
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