Dan Dailey
William "Bill" Kluggs
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When Willie Comes Marching Home: Directed by John Ford. With Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet, Colleen Townsend, William Demarest. Willie Kluggs enters the service with hopes of going overseas, but his uncanny marksmanship keeps him at home as a shooting instructor... much to his embarrassment.
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- Comedy, War
- John Ford
- 1950-02
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When Willie Comes Marching Home is a 1950 World War II comedy film directed by John Ford and starring Dan Dailey and Corinne Calvet. It is based on the 1945 short story "When Leo Comes Marching Home" by Sy Gomberg. The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival.
But within a week fortune both frowns and smiles on Dailey. He gets assigned as a belly gunner in a B-17 crew, gets shot down over France, meets beautiful resistance leader Corinne Calvet and performs a deed that might just change the course of the war. How that all works out you'll have to see When Willie Comes Marching Home.
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action.
At the onset of World War II, Bill Kluggs (Dan Dailey) enlists before anyone else in his town, which makes his family very proud. However, after training, Bill gets assigned to be an instructor at...
- Comedy, Drama, War
Overview. When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home town, and he is recruited into training, keeping him from the action.
