Wednesday, September 10, 2014

What Price Glory (1952)

Based on the play by Maxwell Anderson, first performed in 1924.

During World War I, a Marine outfit is stationed in France. The Captain who commands the outfit has a rivalry with the top sergeant over the love of the innkeeper's daughter. When she talks about marriage, however...

The gorgeous Technicolor cinematography is the highlight of this otherwise mediocre sentimental comedy. What, a sentimental comedy about World War I? You bet! I guess if one is the sentimental type, it does not really matter what one is sentimental about.

Rating: 39

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