When Willie Comes Marching Home(Movie, 1950)

Name: When Willie Comes Marching Home
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1950
Duration: T01:22:00
Rating: 3.5

| 1h 22min | Genre: Comedy

Rating: 3.5/5 (with 5 votes)

When Willie Comes Marching Home is a 1950 World War II comedy film directed by John Ford and starring Dan Dailey and Corinne Calvet. It is based on the 1945 short story "When Leo Comes Marching Home" by Sy Gomberg. The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival. Sy Gomberg also received an Oscar nomination for Best Motion Picture Story at the 23rd Academy Awards in 1951 but was edged out for the award by Edna Anhalt and Edward Anhalt for Panic in the Streets. The film was referred to in M*A*S*H (1970), directed by Robert Altman. ()

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Golden Leopard nominated for: Academy Award for Best Story

About When Willie Comes Marching Home

When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.

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Production country: United States of America (USA)

Plays in: France

Made by: 20th Century Fox

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 6 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Portuguese (PT)

Status: Released

Release date US: 02/01/1950

Cast: Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet, Colleen Townsend, William Demarest, Jimmy Lydon, Lloyd Corrigan, Alberto Morin, Charles Trowbridge, Evelyn Varden, J. Farrell MacDonald, James Flavin, Luis Alberni, Paul Harvey, Vera Miles, Whit Bissell, Kenneth Tobey, Mae Marsh, Larry Keating, Alan Hale, Jr., Hank Worden, John Mitchum, Paul Picerni, Harry Lauter, Ken Lynch, Harry Tenbrook, Charles Halton, Fred Graham, Franklyn Farnum, Jack Pennick, George Magrill, Wilton Graff, Harlan Warde, Hank Mann, Robin Hughes, Ann Codee, Louis Mercier, Peter J. Ortiz

Director: John Ford

Producer: Fred Kohlmar

Screenwriter: Richard Sale

Film Editor: James B. Clark

Director of Photography: Leo Tover

Composer: Alfred Newman

Costume designer: William Travilla

Keywords: nazi, church, embarrasment

Color: Black & White (B/W)

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