So Proudly We Hail!

So Proudly We Hail is a 1943 American film directed and produced by Mark Sandrich, and starring Claudette Colbert, Paulette Goddard who was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance and Veronica Lake. Also featuring George Reeves, it was produced and released by Paramount Pictures.

The story covers many daytoday events and contrasts the brutality of war against the sometimes futile efforts of the nurses to provide medical aid and comfort. Each of the nurses has a past or present love story with a soldier, with the longestterm one between the characters played by Colbert and George Reeves. Flashback narration and a sequence where the nurses and injured soldiers are stranded in Malinta Tunnel pinned down by aircraft fire are two notable aspects of the film.Moviegoers of the time found great timeliness in the movie, since MacArthur and the battles for Bataan, and Corregidor were familiar to every American. Although the lovestory plot line is the primary thrust of the film, the difficulties and emotional toll of war are also shown. ........

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