| Fighting 69th, The | |||||
| Warner Bros. (1940) | |||||
| Biography, Drama, War | |||||
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| James Cagney | Jerry Plunkett | |
| Alan Hale | Sergeant 'Big Mike' Wynn | |
| Pat O'Brien | Father Francis J. Duffy | |
| Dick Foran | Lieutenant 'Long John' Wynn | |
| Jeffrey Lynn | Sergeant Joyce Kilmer | |
| Dennis Morgan | Lieutenant Oliver Ames | |
| George Brent | Major 'Wild Bill' Donovan | |
| Frank McHugh | Terence 'Crepe-Hanger' Burke | |
| William Lundigan | Private Timothy 'Timmy' Wynn | |
| Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams | Paddy Dolan | |
| Henry O'Neill | The Colonel | |
| John Litel | Captain Mangan | |
| Sammy Cohen | Mike Murphy | |
| Harvey Stephens | Major Alex Anderson | |
| William Hopper | Private Turner |
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| Producer | Louis F. Edelman
Hal B. Wallis |
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| Writer | Norman Reilly Raine
Dean Franklin Fred Niblo Jr. Dean Riesner |
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Anybody can start a fight... but here are the guys who can finish it! Tanks were rolling across Europe. World War II had begun. For many Americans, U.S. involvement in the conflict became a question of "when" rather than "if". Warner Bros. reflected that strengthening resolve with exciting, patriotic films set in the war gone by. One was the hard-hitting saga of The Fighting 69th. In the seventh of their nine movies together, off-screen pals James Cagney and Pat O'Brien play soldiers of the famed, largely Irish-American World War I regiment. O'Brien is Father Duffy, the brave chaplain whose statue stands today in Times Square. Cagney is Jerry Plunkett, a street-tough braggart turned yellow by the horror of No Man's Land, but inspired to redemptive heroism by Duffy's courage under fire. |
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