What Price Glory
About What Price Glory
Marine sergeants Quirt and Flagg chase the same women on peacetime posts in China and the Philippines. In 1917 the war sends them to France. Flagg is now a captain and takes up with Charmaine, the innkeeper's daughter. Quirt arrives and cuts in. The fighting, and the threat of a shotgun wedding, puts them on the same side for a while. Charmaine watches them come back twice and knows they will not come back a third time.
Cast & crew
More about What Price Glory
Raoul Walsh directed this Fox picture from the 1924 play by Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings. Malcolm Stuart Boylan wrote the titles. Barney McGill photographed it. Ernö Rapée wrote the score, including the song "Charmaine" with Lew Pollack. It was released with a Movietone score and effects and no spoken dialogue. Fox calls it the company's first sound film. The New York opening was November 23, 1926. AFI lists a general release of August 28, 1927. Copyright is December 4, 1926, LP23393. It is 12 reels, 11,109 to 11,400 feet. Wikidata gives 116 minutes. Victor McLaglen plays Captain Flagg. Edmund Lowe plays Sergeant Quirt. Dolores del Río plays Charmaine. William Fox produced it.
Themes
Making
Walsh shot it silent and Fox put a Movietone track of music and effects on the release, without dialogue.
Look
Barney McGill photographed the China and Philippines postings and the French inn.
Technique
Fox's first release with a Movietone sound-on-film track of music and effects.
Music
Ernö Rapée's Movietone score includes "Charmaine," written with Lew Pollack. There is no spoken dialogue.
Preservation
Preserved complete, with the original sound-on-film elements, at the George Eastman Museum.
Notes
- McLaglen and Lowe played Flagg and Quirt again in The Cock-Eyed World (1929), Women of All Nations (1931), and Hot Pepper (1933).
- Fox remade the story in 1952 with James Cagney.
- The George Eastman Museum holds a complete print with the original sound-on-film track.
- A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
- Film Daily reviewed the New York opening on November 28, 1926. The New York Times notice is November 24.
Scenes
- Quirt walks into the French inn and takes Charmaine's attention off Flagg.
- Charmaine watches the two men leave, after they have come back twice.
Influenced by
- Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings's play What Price Glory (1924)
Influenced
- The Cock-Eyed World (1929)
- What Price Glory (1952)
