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A Medal for Benny is a american film of genre Drama directed by Irving Pichel released in USA on 16 april 1945 with J. Carrol Naish
A Medal for Benny (1945)
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Add to a movie listA Medal for Benny is a 1945 American film directed by Irving Pichel. The story was conceived by writer Jack Wagner, who enlisted his longtime friend John Steinbeck to help him put it into script form. The film was released by Paramount Pictures. The film is also known as Benny's Medal.
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The film examines small town hypocrisy.Actors
J. Carrol Naish
(Charley Martin)
Arturo de Córdova
(Joe Morales)
Dorothy Lamour
(Lolita Sierra)
Frank McHugh
(Edgar Lovekin)
Mikhail Rasumny
(Raphael Catalina)
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