What Price Glory?

Released Nov 23, 1926

2h 0m

Comedy

Drama

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100%

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7 Reviews

77%

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100+ Ratings

U.S. Marines sergeants Flagg (Victor McLaglen) and Quirt (Edmund Lowe) have been bitter rivals for years, but when Flagg is promoted to captain and Quirt is assigned to his unit as his senior non-commissioned officer, their competition flares anew. Assigned to the front lines in France during World War I, Quirt and Flagg tussle over the lovely young Charmaine de la Cognac (Dolores del Río), daughter of local innkeeper Cognac Pete (William V. Mong).

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Wilella Waldorf

New York Post

Creditable, entertaining, often picturesque, if you will, but not a gripping, vital piece of work.

Sep 22, 2020

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Carl Sandburg

Chicago Daily News

It rises above the appeals of patriotism, sentiment, humor, and romance -- although it has all those things -- to shake the whole emotional structure of spectators with an epic portrait of two fascinating and violent men.

Dec 14, 2021

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Robert E. Sherwood

LIFE

[Raoul Walsh] has done a magnificent job in converting a fine, stirring, straightforward play into a fine, stirring, straightforward movie.

Oct 5, 2021

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Iris Barry

The Spectator

What Price Glory comes out in spots of sobbing sentiment now and then, is very slow in places... [but] it contains the incredibly convincing performances of Victor McLaglan and Edmund Lowe as the two soldier-heroes, and occasionally it has greatness.

May 8, 2018

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Sean Axmaker

GreenCine

... the film version thrives on comedy that is sometimes satirical and often ribald. And that comedy only occasionally intersects with the anti-war feeling implied in the title.

Apr 25, 2015

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Fernando F. Croce

CinePassion

A steady stream of roughhouse pirouettes, yet once the characters hit the trenches Walsh composes as fiercely as Griffith

Jan 11, 2014

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Audience Member

The best comedy movie ever made!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/26/23

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Audience Member

ok version of this but I prefer the 1932 version

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Audience Member

A grandious War Movie by the Master Raoul Walsh Brilliant Directed and every Scene is amazing the Battle Scenes are hillarious and also the Love Scenes also the Movie shows early a Anti-War Attitude for example when the Fresh Troops arrive and they are happy for War because they don't see any War before and the Captain says "What is wrong with this rotten World that every 30 Years the Fields must be drown in the Blood of such young Men" and when the Mamma Boy dies all Parts in this Movie are great acted and the French Girl is real hot it also shows a lot of Screwball Comedy and Melodrama and how tracked Menage à trois are

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/16/23

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Raoul Walsh

Director

Victor McLaglen

Capt. Flagg

Edmund Lowe

1st Sgt. Quirt

Dolores del Río

Charmaine de la Cognac

William V. Mong

Cognac Pete

Phyllis Haver

Shanghai Mabel

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Synopsis

U.S. Marines sergeants Flagg (Victor McLaglen) and Quirt (Edmund Lowe) have been bitter rivals for years, but when Flagg is promoted to captain and Quirt is assigned to his unit as his senior non-commissioned officer, their competition flares anew. Assigned to the front lines in France during World War I, Quirt and Flagg tussle over the lovely young Charmaine de la Cognac (Dolores del Río), daughter of local innkeeper Cognac Pete (William V. Mong).

Director: Raoul Walsh
Screenwriter: Malcolm Stuart Boylan, James T. O'Donohoe
Distributor: Fox Film Corporation
Production Co: Fox Film Corporation
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 23, 1926, Original
Release Date (DVD): May 25, 2004
Runtime: 2h 0m