Pride of the Marines

Pride of the Marines

Infobox Film
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. starring John Garfield and Eleanor Parker. It tells the story of U.S. Marine Al Schmid in World War II, his heroic stand against a Japanese attack during the Battle of Guadalcanal, in which he was blinded by a grenade, and his subsequent rehabilitation. The film was based on the Roger Butterfield book, "Al Schmid, Marine".

Albert Maltz was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay.

Cast

*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 Merchant

External links

*tcmdb title|id=2382
* [http://www.military.com/Content/MoreContent?file=ML_schmid_bkp military.com biography of Albert A. Schmid]


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