Salute to the Marines

It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.

Director: S. Sylvan Simon

Cast: Wallace Beery, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Ray Collins, Keye Luke, Marilyn Maxwell, William Lundigan, Donald Curtis

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.