| Salute to the Marines | |
| Director: | S. Sylvan Simon |
| Starring: | Wallace Beery Fay Bainter |
| Released: | 1943 |
| Runtime: | 101 min. |
| Country: | U.S.A. |
| Language: | English |
| Internet Movie Database entry 0036328 | |
Salute to the Marines is a 1943 World War II movie starring Wallace Beery. The movie, set in the Philippines and shot in color (in Hollywood), was directed by S. Sylvan Simon. It is a comic book propaganda film which has Berry as a retired USMC NCO-who when the Japanese attack the Philippines-leads a heroic defense first by strangling a Nazi agent and then dies in his dress blues uniform while blowing up a bridge.