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A Medal for Benny

film by Pichel [1945]

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    In Irving Pichel: Directing

    Pichel returned to flag-waving with A Medal for Benny (1945); it was a variation on Preston Sturges’s Hail the Conquering Hero (1944), without the frenzy and with Dorothy Lamour. Colonel Effingham’s Raid (1946) was not as memorable, but Charles Coburn gave a typically solid performance as a former soldier at…

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