The Eve of St. Mark

19441944
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1h 36m

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5.9/10

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Anne Baxter and William Eythe in The Eve of St. Mark (1944)

War Drama

Hometown boy Quizz West (William Eythe) is one of fewer than 19,000 draftees in 1940. After being familiarized with his fiancée Janet and him, we find Quizz at a gun position fighting off th... Read allHometown boy Quizz West (William Eythe) is one of fewer than 19,000 draftees in 1940. After being familiarized with his fiancée Janet and him, we find Quizz at a gun position fighting off the Japanese along the Philippine shoreline. The situation becomes hopeless for Quizz and hi... Read allHometown boy Quizz West (William Eythe) is one of fewer than 19,000 draftees in 1940. After being familiarized with his fiancée Janet and him, we find Quizz at a gun position fighting off the Japanese along the Philippine shoreline. The situation becomes hopeless for Quizz and his fellow gunners and it's either flee or hold their positions and provide cover for escape... Read all

IMDb RATING

5.9/10

229

YOUR RATING

Directors
- John M. Stahl
- Irving Pichel(fill-in director)
Writers
- Maxwell Anderson(based on a play by)
- George Seaton(screenplay)
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Anne Baxter, Ray Collins, William Eythe, and Ruth Nelson in The Eve of St. Mark (1944)

Vincent Price and William Eythe in The Eve of St. Mark (1944)

Anne Baxter in The Eve of St. Mark (1944)

Quotes
Sgt. Kriven: There's no such thing as a touch of Malaria. It's like a touch of garlic, a little bit goes a long way.

Connections
Edited into All This and World War II (1976)

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6/10

Not fantastic but worth a view.

Run of the mill war time drama centering around the training and combat experiences of a small town farm boy.

The cast of characters are a block of defaults from every war movie ever created. Only the over dramatized, over the top performance of the hugely over written script really lower this into a cinema play of the worst kind.

The scenes in the nightclub when Vincent Price quotes Shakespeare are just dreadful.

First victim of war is Vincent Price's accent. But the time they are going to war he's lost his Southern drawl! Amazingly, the C.O. in Mash turns up when he's in his 20's and HE SOUNDS THE SAME! It's amazing.

Is it worth watching, well... if there's nothing better on. Otherwise, give it a miss.

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