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The wartime romantic misadventures of Captain Flagg, commander of a company of US Marines in 1918 France.The wartime romantic misadventures of Captain Flagg, commander of a company of US Marines in 1918 France.The wartime romantic misadventures of Captain Flagg, commander of a company of US Marines in 1918 France.
Max Showalter
- Lt. Moore
- (as Casey Adams)
Luis Alberni
- Grand Uncle
- (uncredited)
Olga Andre
- Sister Clothilde
- (uncredited)
Tina Blagoi
- Mrs. Bouchard
- (uncredited)
Danny Borzage
- Gilbert
- (uncredited)
George Bruggeman
- German Lieutenant
- (uncredited)
Frederic Brunn
- German Officer
- (uncredited)
Paul Bryar
- Charmaine's Uncle
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaJohn Ford was an uncredited second unit director in the 1926 version directed by Raoul Walsh.
- GoofsCaptain Flagg's command was referred to as L Company, 5th Marines. In WWI Marine Companies were numbered. Prior to WWI they served independently with battalions and above were ad hoc organizations. 5th Marines should 5th Regiment. The change from Regiment to Marines wouldn't come until the 30s.
- Quotes
Captain Flagg: It's a lousy war, kid... but it's the only one we've got.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Only Game in Town (1970)
- SoundtracksOui, Oui, Marie
(uncredited)
Music by Fred Fisher
Lyrics by Al Bryan and Joseph McCarthy
Sung by Corinne Calvet and chorus
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What Price Glory
"Capt. Flagg" (James Cagney) leads a squadron of American marines in France towards the end of the Great War and is unexpectedly reunited with his rival in just about everything, "Sgt. Quirt" (Dan Dailey). Despite their differences in rank, the two compete on an even playing field most of the time - usually fuelled by booze and because they are chasing the same girl. The latter, in this instance, is "Charmaine" (Corinne Calvet) but what neither man realises is that she's got an agenda of her own, and her father is out to help her too - to get an husband. What now ensues sees the grimness of the war tempered by some light-hearted humour, but Cagney isn't really given enough to challenge him by John Ford and the film sort of crawls along in a very procedural fashion with too little action to sustain it's almost two hour duration. Though it would probably have been below his pay grade, I kept thinking that Sterling Hayden would have made for a better antagonist for "Flagg" but the scenes with Dailey and Cagney do inject some life here, and the narrative does sometimes remind us of the trauma of war, but for the most part I felt this a rather lacklustre effort from all concerned that isn't really very funny and that I'll quickly forget.
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- Also known as
- Hombres a la aventura
- Filming locations
- Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, USA(army base scenes)
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- Runtime1 hour 51 minutes
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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