Drama

Music

Stars and Stripes Forever

20th Century Fox

United States of America

English

Clifton Webb

Debra Paget

Robert Wagner

Ruth Hussey

Finlay Currie

Roy Roberts

Thomas Browne Henry

Helen Van Tuyl

Dorinda Clifton

Henry Koster

Lamar Trotti

Gaston Glass

Alfred Bruzlin

Lyman Hallowell

Ken Darby

Alfred Newman

R.L. Hough

Charles G. Clarke

Glenn "Skippy" Delfino

Sam Benson

Claude E. Carpenter

Dorothy Jeakins

Roger Heman Sr.

James B. Clark

Joseph C. Wright

Lyle R. Wheeler

Ray Kellogg

Charles LeMaire

Thomas Little

Ben Nye

Leo Arnaud

Ernest Vajda

John Philip Sousa

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Luckily, John Philip Sousa left us a legacy that anyone who ever drilled in the Boy's Brigade, or the Scouts, or any of the more grown up military will recognise instantly. An huge portfolio of marching music that earned him acclaim throughout the world. Luckily? Well that's because this is not really much of a fitting tribute. Though Clifton Webb goes at the role with gusto, and a doey-eyed Robert Wagner brings a cheeky light-heartedness as his enthusiastic sousaphone (a sort of tuba) protege, the rest of this is really quite weak. Webb spends a great deal of his time parading around like a toy soldier from a Brothers' Grimm fairy tale delivering the somewhat clipped dialogue in the most methodical of manners. The sight of Finlay Currie doing his best Colonel Sanders routine does raise a smile, but for this most part Henry Koster has just created a colourful, but all too processional march through the works of this able musician, without really giving us much to get our teeth into. There are wars to be fought, and no doubt his tunes offered inspiration to those facing combat; and the effects of conflict are felt close to his heart, but again little effort has been put into developing the supporting characters and so it all just feels a bit superficial - fluffy, even. Still, you ought to enjoy this if you like a bit of flamboyance and some good band sound.

Marching Along (1952) ORIGINAL TRAILER

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Clifton Webb

Debra Paget

Robert Wagner

Ruth Hussey

Finlay Currie

Roy Roberts

Thomas Browne Henry

Helen Van Tuyl

Dorinda Clifton

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