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The Fighting 69Th

1940, Movie, NR, 90 mins

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A showcase for the wisecracking, swaggering antics of Cagney, playing a would-be hero from Brooklyn who joins the all-Irish 69th New York Regiment after the US enters WWI. Jerry Plunkett (Cagney) is a street-corner brawler who couldn't care less about the illustrious military tradition embodied in the old 69th and who snubs feisty Father Duffy (O'Brien, who else?) when he finds out that Duffy is a priest. ("I don't go in for that Holy Joe stuff," as he puts it.) Throughout ... read more leave a comment
Year: 1940
Rated NR

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Cast
James Cagney: Jerry Plunkett
Pat O'Brien: Father Duffy
George Brent: Wild Bill Donovan
Jeffrey Lynn: Joyce Kilmer
Alan Hale: Sgt. Big Mike Wynn
Frank McHugh: "Crepe Hanger" Burke

 

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A braggart learns the true meaning of heroism when he joins a World War I all Irish unit in...
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