Salute to the Marines

Status:
Released
Production:
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Aired:
1943-09-02
Salute to the Marines
It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.
Comedy
Drama
War
Characters

Wallace Beery
Sgt. Maj. William Bailey

Fay Bainter
Jennie Bailey

Reginald Owen
Mr. Henry Casper

Ray Collins
Col. John Mason

Keye Luke
'Flashy' Logaz

Marilyn Maxwell
Helen Bailey

William Lundigan
Rufus Cleveland

Donald Curtis
Randall James

Noah Beery
Adjutant

Dick Curtis
Cpl. Mosley

Russell Gleason
Pvt. Hanks

Rose Hobart
Mrs. Carson