Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith delays the return to his hometown, feeling that he is a failure. While in a moment of melancholy, he meets up with a group of Marines who befriend him and encourage him to return home to his mother by fabricating a story that he was wounded in battle with honorable discharge.

• DirectorPreston Sturges
• Release9 August 1944
• Genre
  Comedy / War
• Duration1h 41m
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  7.0
  68 reviews
• Productions

  Paramount Pictures