Having been discharged from the Marines for a hayfever condition before ever seeing action, Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) 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.
Ella Raines | Libby | |
Raymond Walburn | Mayor Everett D. Noble | |
William Demarest | Sgt. Heppelfinger | |
Franklin Pangborn | Reception Committee Chairman | |
Elizabeth Patterson | Martha - Libby's Aunt | |
Georgia Caine | Mrs. Truesmith |
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