Pride of the Marines Page #3

Synopsis: Married couple Jim & Ella Merchant set up their single friend Al Schmid on a blind date with Ruth Hartley. The two hit it off and begin dating. A welder, one day at the workplace, Al learns of a friend's enlistment in the Marine Corps and decides to join himself. Al and Ruth have a last date, with Al insisting that she forget about him as he is about to go into combat. However, when Ruth goes to meet his departure train, he is overjoyed and gives her an engagement ring. Assigned to Guadalcanal, Al and his squad are tasked with preventing the Japanese from breaching their line. During a night attack, many of his fellow Marines are slain, but Al ends up single-handedly saving the day, killing scores of Japanese. However, he is wounded by a suicide bomber near the end of the the battle. At the hospital, Al learns that he is blind, a condition that persists even after surgery. Feeling sorry for himself, he dictates a letter to a nurse, informing Ruth that he is relieving her of any obligat
Director(s): Delmer Daves
Production: Warner Bros.
 
IMDB:
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Year:
1945
120 min
110 Views


gonna try what i just showed you?

I could never do

that cute little step.

Now you're angry.

I'm not angry!

Either put the ball down

or throw it.

I didn't say on my foot!

I missed your foot.

By 1/4 of an inch.

How would you feel if...

from the way you've

been acting tonight,

i didn't think you knew

what feelings were.

See here, this wanting

to bowl was just a gag?

Now, don't spoil things

by acting intelligent.

Are you trying to make

a monkey out of me?

It wasn't hard.

You're not very bright.

Is that right?

Now maybe you know

how i've been feeling all evening,

thanks to you.

Thanks to me?

Who asked you on this date? Not me.

You cooked it up

yourself with ella mae

so you could hook

yourself a husband.

You wanted me

to cooperate.

Well, i didn't.

I'm no dummy.

When i take out

a dame... look out!

I don't know what

you expected from this date, mr. Schmid,

but i certainly

didn't expect you.

Ella mae said there'd

just be jim and her.

And as far

as i'm concerned,

i've spent a dreary evening

with an awful drip.

Good-bye.

Hi, ruth.

Ride you home?

Go away.

But our little boy

is sick, ruth.

He keeps crying

for you.

You can't desert him

like this.

Stop being a clown

and go away.

But he didn't sleep

all last night.

He kept crying, "mommy,

dear! Mommy, dear!"

It's all right if you

don't love me anymore,

but you can't desert

an innocent boy.

You ought to be ashamed

of yourself.

It's all nonsense.

I don't even know him.

Young man,

is this just a pickup?

Does she look like

she don't know me?

Or do i have to go as far

as to tell you

she happens to have

a mole on her...

excuse me.

Take my advice,

young woman.

You'll go home

to your child.

Go on, sister.

Go home to your kid.

Probably crying

its head off.

It's all right.

It's got two of them.

Two heads.

Imagine that.

You know, you acted

just like you didn't like my looks.

Oh, you're not

so bad-looking.

You'd say so, even if

you didn't think so.

You'd think so,

even if i didn't say so.

Why don't you answer

the phone sometime?

I do. Depends on

who's at the other end.

You know, i struck up

quite a friendship with your uncle ralph,

except he's a little

too old to date.

Try harder.

He won't hook you.

I'm apologizing, see?

How about if we

throw away the rest of the cards

and start with

a new deck, huh?

How about you keeping

your eyes on the road?

Would you mind driving

a little faster?

It's my birthday tomorrow,

and i have a dinner date

to celebrate it tonight.

You got a date

to celebrate tonight for tomorrow?

It don't make sense.

Does it have to?

Why are you slowing down?

It feels like my left

rear needs some air.

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Albert Maltz

Albert Maltz was an American playwright, fiction writer and screenwriter. He was one of the Hollywood Ten who were jailed in 1950 for their 1947 refusal to testify before the US Congress about their involvement with the Communist Party USA. more…

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