What Price Glory?
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Movie Reviews of What Price Glory?
Movie Review: What Price Glory
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband and I thought this movie was so good and funny. We enjoyed it alot. We highly recamend this movie. James Cagney and Dan Daily were great together in this World War One Comedy. Thank You Susanne ReevesMovie Review: Military Buddies Together Again
Summary: 4 Stars
"What Price Glory" is neither a comedy nor a war film but more of a military spoof about two servicemen, Captain Flagg (James Cagney) and F/Sgt Quirt (Dan Dailey), set in WWI era France. Both men are professionals and respect each other's abilities but they have a long standing love hate relationship going back many years. Now they find themselves together again facing WWI with a company of men who are no more than children or old men. Even the officers are nothing more than "college boys" lacking any real experience. Flagg and Quirt know the sacrifice that must be made but seek to carefully guard the lives of the boys entrusted to them.
Directed by John Ford, his underlying theme is devotion to what is just and of being part of and playing for the team. All through the movie are seen examples of the men making sacrifices of what they want for what they know must be done. Against his desires to get even with Quirt, Flagg knows Quirt's abilities are needed for the greater good and saves him from a forced marriage. Quirt throws two of the weaker soldiers in the brig to save their lives from the front lines. Quirt and Flagg take on a mission on their own to avoid sending others who they know lack experience and finally old and young soldiers join the march to the front even though they are excused.
There are plenty of humorous moments in the movie and the interplay between Cagney and Dailey is classic sitcom but this is not a war film or a story of an historical event. It is simply set in a WWI setting. The movie has conflictions in terms in that the men are supposed to be a company of Marines but always refereed to as soldiers and of being part of the army. The movie stresses that except for Flagg and Quirt this is a "citizen's army" and that the men are not professionals thus posing the larger problem for Flagg and Quirt to not sacrifice them needlessly. Over all this is an entertaining movie as a mix of sitcom with the seriousness of war.
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Movie Review: Easy to recommend war movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Taking place in World War I is the James Cagney-Dan Dailey drama "What Price Glory" made in 1952 by the legendary director John Ford. Essentially the movie is a classic love triangle story set against the backdrop of the ravaged French countryside of 1918. Cagney plays the part of Capt. Flagg, a commander in charge of a ragtag group of conscripts who must rely on the brash and disrespectful Sgt. Quirt to whip them into shape. Trouble brews though when Flagg and Quirt both fall for the same girl. The movie is a triumph for all concerned both in strong performances from the actors (including a young Robert Wagner) and a technical masterpiece from the crew. The same cannot be honestly said for the DVD. Although the picture and sound are both acceptable the quality of the overall print shows some wear and there are noticeable fluctuations in the color balance. Still for such a low price it is a title that is easy to recommend.Movie Review: Cagney tour-de-force
Summary: 4 Stars
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Cagney does his thing in this light comedy-drama set in 1918 at the Front in France. He and Dan Dailey are old warhorses...who take up arms and put them down again throughout, as mental and physical exhaustion take hold on these fighters - perhaps 15 years too old to be in combat - and as a shared romantic interest with a "local" girl, an innkeeper's daughter (fighting her own internal war, as she must decide which soldier she will marry - or will she marry at all), compounds the drama.
The movie is based upon a fairly pedestrian play and strangely, John Ford does not expand the story beyond the confines of a shelter or inn. One wonders if Ford knew he had a tight budget and so freed up Cagney to go completely over the top with Cagneyisms. The man could act. And he lifts a B-movie to a B+, getting all he can get from a good, albeit cliched script.
Movie Review: What Price Glory
Summary: 4 Stars
A very enjoyable James Cagney movie, very little war, mostly comedy. The film has been very well remastered. Dan Dailey, who was 11 years younger than James Cagney and also an excellent 'song and dance man' plays a brilliant character as a foil to Cagney. Highly recommended.