When Willie Comes Marching Home

Name: When Willie Comes Marching Home
Director: John Ford
Released: 1950
Duration: 82 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet, Colleen Townsend, William Demarest, Jimmy Lydon

1950 · 82 MIN · IMDB 6.4 · 876 VOTES · DIR. John Ford

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. However, when he finds himself accidently behind enemy lines he unexpectedly becomes a hero after all.

Dialogue Timeline — 937 lines

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00:01:10 This is Punxatawney, West Virginia.

00:04:22 the army's Hickam Field and Ford Island.

00:08:06 And they didn't waste any time putting us through our basic training.

00:13:13 Mom! Mom?

00:15:26 - That's only five miles from here. - Yeah, I know.

00:19:14 Baffled and blue I go wandering

00:21:55 She's too busy worrying about Charley.

00:24:38 I've got to ship out of here. It's my turn, and I'm one of the best aerial gunners you've got.

00:28:12 Yellow? Sir, I said I wanted to go to war!

00:31:00 You will? That's fine. Thanks a lot.

00:34:17 - Pretty dangerous stuff. - Yeah, well, all in a day's work.

00:37:08 See that ship out there? She's bound for England in one hour if you're aboard her.

00:39:39 Willie.

00:42:54 - What do you want to do? - We haven't any choice. There are eight men up there.

00:49:04 - Give me that. S'il vous plaît.

00:52:18 - We burn it. - You got the wrong one.

00:56:13 Willie, you too drunk to sing too. Come on.

01:04:00 - They didn't give you warning.

01:06:38 They didn't waste any time rushing me over to the Pentagon building.

01:08:41 Anytime, Kluggs.

01:11:36 - I tell you what you do, soldier.

01:15:45 - They? - Yeah, the French Underground.

01:18:06 I know you didn't mean to do it.

20:00:00 have been flung into the dawn attack.

Cast & Characters

Dan Dailey William 'Bill' Kluggs Corinne Calvet Yvonne Le Tete Colleen Townsend Marjorie 'Marge' Fettles William Demarest Herman Kluggs Jimmy Lydon Charles 'Charlie' Fettles Lloyd Corrigan Maj. Adams Evelyn Varden Mrs. Gertrude Kluggs John Mitchum Schreves Paul Picerni Kerrigan Luis Alberni Barman

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed937

Dialogue density11.4 lines / min

First line00:01:10

Final line20:00:00

Production Record

DirectorJohn Ford

LanguageEnglish

IMDb votes876