Salute to the Marines 1943

Directed by S. Sylvan Simon | Starring: Wallace Beery, Fay Bainter, Reginald Owen, Ray Collins

It is a comic book propaganda film which has Beery as a retired USMC NCO who, when the Japanese invade the Philippines, leads a heroic defense, first by strangling a Nazi agent, and then dying in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.