What Next, Corporal Hargrove?

1945 film by Richard Thorpe

November 21, 1945 (1945-11-21)

Running time

95 minutesCountryUnited StatesLanguageEnglishBox office$2,250,000 (US rentals)^[1]

What Next, Corporal Hargrove? is a 1945 black-and-white comedy film directed by Richard Thorpe and starring Robert Walker and Keenan Wynn. It was distributed by MGM and produced by George Haight. Harry Kurnitz received an Oscar nomination for his original screenplay, What Next, Corporal Hargrove?, for this follow-up to the 1944 hit See Here, Private Hargrove.^[2]

Plot

U.S. artillery corporal Marion Hargrove finds himself at large in wartime France with wheeler-dealer pal Pvt. Thomas Mulvehill. Inadvertently detached from their outfit, Hargrove and Mulvehill wander into a French village, where they're lauded as conquering heroes by the populace.^[3]

Cast

Robert Walker as Cpl. Marion Hargrove
Keenan Wynn as Pvt. Thomas Mulvehill
Jean Porter as Jeanne Quidoc
Chill Wills as Sgt. Cramp
Hugo Haas as Mayor Quidoc
William 'Bill' Phillips as Bill Burk
Fred Essler as Marcel Vivin
Cameron Mitchell as Joe Lupot
Ted Lundigan as Curtis
Dick Hirbe as Neilson
Arthur Walsh as Ellerton
Maurice Marks as Gilly
Paul Langton as Capt. Drake
James Davis as Sgt. Hill
Jack Carlyle as Lt. Morley

References

^ "Variety (January 1947)". New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company. September 1, 1947. Retrieved September 1, 2019 – via Internet Archive.
^ "What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945) - Articles - TCM.com". Turner Classic Movies.
^ "What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945) - Richard Thorpe - Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related - AllMovie". AllMovie.

External links

Media related to What Next, Corporal Hargrove? (1945 film) at Wikimedia Commons

What Next, Corporal Hargrove? at IMDb
What Next, Corporal Hargrove? at AllMovie
What Next, Corporal Hargrove? at the TCM Movie Database
What Next, Corporal Hargrove? at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films

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