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The picture of a pretty nurse, on an appeal for medical missionaries for China, prompts Wassell (Gary Cooper) to go in search of her.
He falls in love with Madeline (Laraine Day), but believes that she is engaged to someone else.
He joins the Navy and is sent to Java to care for the wounded. A native girl (Carol Thurston) helps him.
Wassell and a trained nurse (Signe Hasso) get most of the casualties aboard the rescue ships, but are left with the more seriously wounded sailors.
British troops help him get these men through incredible difficulties to the last ship for Australia.
Awarded the Navy Cross for saving his men, Wassell learns that Madeline never married and is waiting for him.
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"N this picture, Cecil B. DeMille has recorded the saga of a simple and modest Arkansas doctor who was destined to become a part of the American heroic legend. Dr. Corydon M. Wassell did not seek fame or glory; he had it thrust upon him when President Roosevelt, in a radio broadcast, cited him as an example of valor and self-sacrifice beyond the bounds of duty.
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' r. Wassell's achievement was one of fidelity rather than of prowess — an achievement rooted in character and background. Mr. DeMille wisely gives us a portrait of his hero from his early days as a country doctor through his patient missionary days in China, culminating in the phase which brought him into the war and won him the nation's gratitude. The picture thus becomes in essence a study of a richly human and ingratiating man sketched against a back
ground of colorful and dramatic contrasts.
Though the principal episodes are historically true, DeMille has leavened his facts with the aura of romance and adventure. Dr. Wassell's struggles during his early days in China, his sympathy and tenderness toward the Chinese under his care, his scientific researches, and his frustration, both in that field and hr his love for an American girl, are all preparatory to the great adventure which
lies ahead. In the hospital at Java, charged with the care of a handful of grievously wounded men, he sticks superbly to his duty and refuses to abandon them even in the face of the oncoming Japs. When at last he is permitted to take Jiis charges on a perilous journey to the coast, he proves fiimself more than equal to his harrowing responsibilities.
Gary Cooper lends precisely the right tone and quality to his portrayal of Dr. Wassell. His performance is appealing and convincing throughout. Laraine Day, as the girl he eventually Wins, and Signe Hasso, as one of the nurses, are strikingly effective. The large supporting cast includes Dennis O'Keefe, Carl Esmond, Stanley Ridges and others.
"Hail the Conquering Hero" is reviewed on page 8.