Salute to the Marines(1943)

movie - first aired/released 1943-09-02 - 101 min - audience 7.2

Comedy, Drama, War

Directed by S. Sylvan Simon

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.