Salute to the Marines (1943) Watch Online Trailer

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.



Salute to the Marines (1943)
Released: 01 Sep 1943
Runtime: 101 min
Rated: PASSED
Director: S. Sylvan Simon
Writer(s): Robert Hardy Andrews (story), Wells Root (adaptation), George Bruce (screenplay)
Actors: Wallace Beery, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Ray Collins
IMDB Ratings: 6.6



Plot: Wallace Beery stars in this patriotic World War II drama about a tough retired Marine who is caught in the middle of the Philippines campaign, experiencing action, heroics, and tragedy. Gruff Sergeant Bailey has never actually been in combat, but when the Japanese invade, the untested leader finally sees battle, ironically as a civilian in charge of organizing the citizens' withdrawal.