Pride of the Marines

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Pride Of The Marines, 1945.

Ben Mankiewicz introduces Pride Of The Marines, 1945.

Reporting for duty, New Years' Day 1942, U.S.M.C volunteer Al Schmid (John Garfield) arrives at Union Station, Philadelphia, having told girlfriend Ruth (Eleanor Parker) to stay home, with a mix of genuine location and process shots, in the Warner Bros. bio-pic, Pride Of The Marines, 1945.

From Albert Maltz's Academy Award-nominated script, girlfriend Ruth (Eleanor Parker) narrating, Al (John Garfield) taking over, as he arrives in the Pacific, meeting Irish (Don McGuire), Rivers (Anthony Caruso) and Diamond (Dane Clark) in the jungle, in the bio-pic Pride Of The Marines, 1945.

John Garfield playing the real Al Schmid bowls a strike, continuing his testy meet-cute with Ruth (young Eleanor Parker) at a Philly bowling alley, before the war, match-making friends Jim and Ella May (John Ridgely, Ann Doran) standing back, early in Delmer Daves' Pride Of The Marines, 1945.

John Garfield stars in the true-life story of Al Schmid, A World War II hero blinded by a grenade in Pride Of The Marines (1945).