| Salute to the Marines | |
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Original film poster |
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| Directed by | S. Sylvan Simon |
| Starring | Wallace Beery Fay Bainter |
| Distributed by | MGM |
| Release date(s) | 1943 |
| Running time | 101 min. |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
Salute to the Marines is a 1943 World War II war film starring Wallace Beery. The movie, set in the Philippines and shot in Technicolor (in Hollywood), was 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.