See Here, Private Hargrove (film)
Appearance
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Directed by | Wesley Ruggles |
Screenplay by | Harry Kurnitz |
Based on | See Here, Private Hargrove 1942 book by Marion Hargrove |
Produced by | George Haight |
Starring | Robert Walker Donna Reed Keenan Wynn |
Cinematography | Charles Lawton Jr. |
Edited by | Frank E. Hull |
Music by | David Snell Lennie Hayton |
Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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Running time | 101 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
See Here, Private Hargrove is a 1944 black-and-white comedy film from MGM, produced by George Haight, directed by Wesley Ruggles, and starring Robert Walker, Donna Reed, and Keenan Wynn. The film was adapted from the 1942 memoir of the same name by Marion Hargrove.
The film was followed by a 1945 sequel, What Next, Corporal Hargrove?, which followed Hargrove to France.[1]
Plot
[edit]The storyline unfolds as a series of humorous anecdotes about Marion Hargrove's tenure in the U.S. Army while at boot camp in Fort Bragg, NC during the early days of World War II.
Cast
[edit]- Robert Walker as Pvt. Marion Hargrove
- Donna Reed as Carol Holliday
- Keenan Wynn as Pvt. Mulvehill
- Grant Mitchell as Uncle George
- Ray Collins as Brody S. Griffith
- Chill Wills as First Sgt. Cramp
- Bob Crosby as Bob
- Marta Linden as Mrs. Holliday
- George Offerman Jr. as Pvt. Orrin Esty
- Edward Fielding as Gen. Dillon
- Donald Curtis as Sgt. Heldon
- William Phillips as Pvt. Bill Burk (as Wm. 'Bill' Phillips)
- Douglas Fowley as Capt. R.S. Manville
- Robert Benchley as Mr. Holliday
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- See Here, Private Hargrove at IMDb
- See Here, Private Hargrove at AllMovie
- See Here, Private Hargrove at the TCM Movie Database
- See Here, Private Hargrove at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
Categories:
- 1944 films
- 1940s war comedy films
- American black-and-white films
- American war comedy films
- Films based on non-fiction books
- Films directed by Wesley Ruggles
- Films set in North Carolina
- Films set on the home front during World War II
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
- Military humor in film
- Films with screenplays by Harry Kurnitz
- World War II films made in wartime
- 1944 comedy films
- 1940s English-language films
- Films scored by David L. Snell
- Films scored by Lennie Hayton
- English-language war comedy films
- World War II film stubs
- 1940s comedy film stubs