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Call Out the Marines is a american film of genre Comedy directed by William Hamilton released in USA on 13 february 1942 with Edmund Lowe
Call Out the Marines (1942)
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Add to a movie listCall Out the Marines is a 1942 military comedy released by RKO in February 1942. It stars Victor McLaglen and Edmund Lowe playing the same characters with different names that they played in What Price Glory? and several sequels; however the original film trailer mentions What Price Glory? and The Cock-Eyed World. The film features extensive stock footage from RKO's Soldiers of the Sea that in some cases appear on process screens that the actors stand in front of.
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Ex-Marines Jimmy McGinnis (Victor McLaglen) and Harry Curtis (Edmund Lowe), who haven't seen each other for fifteen years, meet at a racetrack. They both immediately drop their jobs as an attendant and cleaner to rekindle their friendship and brawl over which one will have Violet (Binnie Barnes) for their girl. When visiting a clip joint called the Shoreleave Cafe with Violet, they meet the owner, Jim Blake (Paul Kelly). Blake was their former captain; he left the Corps under a cloud when he was blamed for a security breach. Blake is involved in espionage, arranging to buy the plans for a new amphibious vehicle.Actors
Edmund Lowe
(Harry Curtis)
Victor McLaglen
(Sgt. Jimmy McGinnis)
Binnie Barnes
(Violet 'Vi' Hall)
Paul Kelly
(Jim Blake)
Robert Smith
(PFC Billy Harrison)
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