Overview
Release Date:
août 1952 (USA)
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Plot:
In 1918 France, Captain Flagg commands a disreputable company of Marines; his new top sergeant is his old friendly enemy...
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Avis des utilisateurs:
John Ford's idea of World War I
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Crew believed to be complete
Additional Details
Durée:
111 min
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1
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Son:
Mono (Western Electric Recording)
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Curiosités
Anecdotes:
The melody "Charmaine" (Rapee/Pollock), specially written for the 1928 version of the film, was incorporated into the soundtrack music following a best-selling version record by
Mantovani making the charts in 1951.
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Goofs:
Factual errors: Capt Flagg's unit is part of the US Marines, which is completely independent of the US Army. Nevertheless, references are made to "the Army" and individual men are referred to as "soldier", which is a term used to refer to men serving in the Army and would be taken as an insult by a Marine.
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Guillemet:
Pvt. Lewisohn:
You speak English very well.
Nicole Bouchard:
Sister Cecile does not permit that we speak French in English class.
Pvt. Lewisohn:
Well, I can tell you how glad I am that you've Sister Cecile for a teacher.
Nicole Bouchard:
Thank you, also my father does not permit that I speak to American soldier... in any language.
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Soundtrack:
OUI, OUI, MARIE
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One of the great anti-war plays of the 1920s was Maxwell Anderson's What Price Glory. The play expressed popular American feeling that we were never going to war again like that and endure the slaughter in those trenches in France that occurred in the short time we were there. Remember we only declared war in 1917 and the thing had been going on in Europe for three years by the time we got there.
One of the things Woodrow Wilson as President and the American Expeditionary Force commander John Pershing insisted on was that the American army when fully trained would fight as a unit and not just be replacement troops for the French and British already there. They deviated only once from that policy when the American First Marine Division became the first American troops in battle in World War I at Belleau Wood. These Marines depicted here are part of those troops.
John Ford is one of our great American directors and when he does his own work on material never before used he's produced some remarkable cinema. But here he takes a serious anti-war play and turns it into one of his service comedies. There certainly are comedic elements in What Price Glory, but it's a serious picture.
The original silent film version done by Raoul Walsh was faithful to Maxwell Anderson's spirit and introduced those two Marines Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen who were so popular as Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt that they went and starred in a slew of buddy films. In fact they and James Cagney and Pat O'Brien introduced and popularized the buddy film genre.
Cagney steps into McLaglen shoes here and Dan Dailey plays Sergeant Quirt. They played two belligerent oafs in this and play them well, but no one ever thought of re-teaming them.
John Ford should have let this classic alone.