What Price Glory

In 1918, in Bar-de-Duc, France, the leader of a company of Marines in the front, Captain Flagg (James Cagney), receives a group of green replacements and his disaffection, the tough Sergeant Quirt (Dan Dailey). Their rivalry increases when they both feel... Full review

I was surprised to see John Ford's name listed as the director for this film, and even more surprised when it was over. With Oscar wins for greats like "The Grapes of Wrath" (1940) and "How Green Was My Valley (1941),... Full review

Well, despite having made "The Sands of Iwo Jima", John Ford made a movie about World War I Marines that doesn't really seem to be about Marines at all. I'm not a student of World War I Marine slang, but it... Full review

"What Price Glory" is a World War I lover's triangle set against the ravaged backdrop of French countryside circa, 1918. Drama aside, the film is not what one might expect from directorial giant John Ford. James Cagney is a bit over... Full review

Excellent performances by James Cagney and Dan Dailey with good support from William Demarest and a super young Robert Wagner. Interesting contrast of characters from the battle tested professionals like Cagney and Dailey to the fresh out of basic training and... Full review

Oh how I hated this movie! Instead of learning anything about WW1, it was very silly and superficial. This movie took WW1 and re-created it so it looks more like a combination of the war AND a Popeye cartoon! The paper... Full review

One of the great anti-war plays of the 1920s was Maxwell Anderson's What Price Glory. The play expressed popular American feeling that we were never going to war again like that and endure the slaughter in those trenches in France that... Full review

Ford might be best known for his Westerns, but he made nearly as many military pictures as he made Westerns (perhaps more if we were to count his cavalry pictures in the military genre). What Price Glory is a WWI picture... Full review

Fox's DVD of What Price Glory looks just about perfect, allowing us to admire the handsome art direction. James Cagney seems distracted, and his opposite number Dan Dailey is missing what little charm he had. ... Full Review

Ford was mostly terrible at comedy....Worse, the film has a ridiculous subplot about a young American soldier (Robert Wagner) falling for a French girl from a convent school (Marisa Pavan);....the movie grinds to a halt when these two are on screen.....but Ford hated the songs.... ... Full Review

Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab. I'm stumbling back to bed here, bleary eyed, but I'm going to leave you with our good friends, that rowdy band of @$$holes you know and love: Howdy, @$$heads! ... Full Article

Does anybody know when this series will finally get cleared up....welp time to go back to my Dolemite festival Jon: Thanks for confirming the vibe my "Spidey-Sense" picked up from the "Captain America: What Price Glory?" project. ... Full Article

James Cagney signed on to play Captain Flagg in 20th Century Fox's 1952 remake of the 1926 classic What Price Glory after being told that the old property was being converted into a musical. ... Full Article