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During a WW2 patrol in the North-African desert, a Canadian corporal reminisces about his sweetheart and must lead his platoon when the sergeant gets wounded.During a WW2 patrol in the North-African desert, a Canadian corporal reminisces about his sweetheart and must lead his platoon when the sergeant gets wounded.During a WW2 patrol in the North-African desert, a Canadian corporal reminisces about his sweetheart and must lead his platoon when the sergeant gets wounded.
John Banner
- Officer
- (uncredited)
Wilson Benge
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
Lane Bradford
- Returning Soldier
- (uncredited)
James Carlisle
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Gordon B. Clarke
- Soldier
- (uncredited)
Ruth Clifford
- Nightclub Patron
- (uncredited)
James Craven
- NCO
- (uncredited)
Oliver Cross
- Nightclub Patron
- (uncredited)
Jack Deery
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
- Director
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- TriviaAccording to TCM's Robert Osborne, this was the last film Henry Fonda worked on before enlisting in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
- GoofsWhen the survivors come across the vehicle tracks after the attack on the Italian armoured car, multiple shadows of the soldiers can be seen, indicating multiple light sources.
- Quotes
Sgt. Kelly: Drinking water is the worst thing in the world for a wound like mine.
[in the groin]
- ConnectionsEdited into All This and World War II (1976)
- SoundtracksThe Campbells Are Coming
(uncredited)
Traditional
Played on the bagpipes at the beginning
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1943's The Immortal Sergeant is a tedious and overly melodramatic bit of dullness that makes you glad we won WWII. But how?
I never got a chance to suspend my disbelief with this movie. Every moment I saw characters running hither and yon, pursuing Nazis or being strafed, I reacted with a dull, throbbing irritation. The movie is so drab that whatever does get done right gets lost in the wrong.
Henry Fonda, the young Canadian soldier in the Royal Army, is such a wussburger, he's willing to let Maureen O'Hara go to a teddibly uppa-crust war correspondent (Allyn Joslyn) instead of popping him in the nose. He whines to his sergeant (the immortal one--Thomas Sullivan) that he can't have a rank of responsibility. When he takes over the patrol, he has to quell a mutiny, slaughter a bunch of Italians and Germans, and make it back to base, all the while being crippled by some of the most boring flashbacks I've ever seen.
By the time our hero gets a medal pinned on his hospital robe (yeah, he makes it), he has turned in to a nasty, kill-em-all-and-let-God- sort-them-out candidate for a commission. He tells the teddible war correspondent that if he doesn't get a letter to O'Hara telling her he wants to marry her, he'll murder the journalist friend.
Sheesh, not "I'll smack ya in the kisser" or "I'll dance on your head, but "I'll murder you."
So much for Mr. Nice Wussburger. I think I liked him better.
The Immortal Sergeant didn't teach that to Corporal Jackass.
I never got a chance to suspend my disbelief with this movie. Every moment I saw characters running hither and yon, pursuing Nazis or being strafed, I reacted with a dull, throbbing irritation. The movie is so drab that whatever does get done right gets lost in the wrong.
Henry Fonda, the young Canadian soldier in the Royal Army, is such a wussburger, he's willing to let Maureen O'Hara go to a teddibly uppa-crust war correspondent (Allyn Joslyn) instead of popping him in the nose. He whines to his sergeant (the immortal one--Thomas Sullivan) that he can't have a rank of responsibility. When he takes over the patrol, he has to quell a mutiny, slaughter a bunch of Italians and Germans, and make it back to base, all the while being crippled by some of the most boring flashbacks I've ever seen.
By the time our hero gets a medal pinned on his hospital robe (yeah, he makes it), he has turned in to a nasty, kill-em-all-and-let-God- sort-them-out candidate for a commission. He tells the teddible war correspondent that if he doesn't get a letter to O'Hara telling her he wants to marry her, he'll murder the journalist friend.
Sheesh, not "I'll smack ya in the kisser" or "I'll dance on your head, but "I'll murder you."
So much for Mr. Nice Wussburger. I think I liked him better.
The Immortal Sergeant didn't teach that to Corporal Jackass.
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- Den odödlige sergeanten
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- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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