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5.8/10   22 votes
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Director:
Raoul Walsh
Writers:
Maxwell Anderson (story)
Tom Barry (story)
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Release Date:
20 October 1929 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Musical more
Plot:
Two Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl. full summary | add synopsis
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User Comments:
A skillful comedy/drama of military life between the wars. more (2 total)

Cast

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Victor McLaglen ... Top Sergeant Flagg
Edmund Lowe ... Sergeant Harry Quirt
Lili Damita ... Mariana Elenita
Leila Karnelly ... Olga
El Brendel ... 'Yump' Olson
Bob Burns ... Connors
Jeanette Dagna ... Katinka
Joe Brown ... Brownie
Stuart Erwin ... Buckley
Ivan Linow ... Sanovich
Jean Laverty ... Fanny (as Jean Barry)
Soledad Jiménez ... Innkeeper
Curley Dresden ... O'Sullivan (as Albert 'Curley' Dresden)
Joe Rochay ... Jacobs
Willie Keeler ... Brawler (as Willie 'Sugar' Keeler)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Cockeyed World
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Runtime:
118 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.20 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (MovieTone)
Filming Locations:
Mare Island Naval Yard, Vallejo, California, USA more
Company:
Fox Film Corporation more

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Trivia:
Thought to be the first official movie sequel, that is, a film with the same actors reprising roles form an earlier picture (What Price Glory (1926)). This also had the same director and writers as it's progenitor. more
Movie Connections:
Follows What Price Glory (1926) more
Soundtrack:
So Long more

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A skillful comedy/drama of military life between the wars., 4 December 2005
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Author: genet-1 from France

A near-remake of Walsh's 1926 WHAT PRICE GLORY, again featuring the rivalry of Marine Sergeants Quirt and Flagg, this time in Russia and Central America. In a convincingly frigid Russia, Flagg (McLaglen) tricks Quirt (Lowe) into a beating from the enormous Sanovich (Ivan Lenow),an irate boyfriend returning home early, while in Central America Quirt steals Mariana Elenita (Lily Damita, effectively vivacious) from under Flagg's nose by posing as a major. In between, on leave in New York, Flagg discovers that Quirt, far from being the big-time promoter he claims, actually runs a Coney Island Guess-Your-Weight concession, but once again the more cunning Quirt plays on Flagg's hot temper to snatch the girl. Raoul Walsh, who knew military life from the inside, celebrates the camaraderie, contempt for authority and rank, and the unflagging pursuit of booze and sex that typify the life of a professional soldier; elements that recur in almost every war film from THE BIG PARADE to M.A.S.H and JARHEAD.

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