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Hail the Conquering Hero is a 1944 American satirical comedy-drama film written and directed by Preston Sturges that stars Eddie Bracken, Ella Raines and William Demarest, supported by Raymond Walburn, Franklin Pangborn, Elizabeth Patterson, Bill Edwards and Freddie Steele. In 2015, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it "culturally,…
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The Latin proverb “inter arma silent Musae”, which describes a lack of cultural achievements during wartime, could not be applied to Hollywood during the Second World War. Some of the most iconic films of the period were made while America was at war. Some even represented the most honest and, in the context of propaganda mandates and censorship constraints, the most daring treatment of the war itself, like *Hail th…More
