THEY GAVE HIM A GUN.
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✎ Suggest a correctionThe movie begins in World War I when a young man unexpectedly becomes a hero by killing all the Germans in a machine gun nest. But he is then severely wounded and spends time in a hospital being cared for by a nurse, Rose (Gladys George), with whom he falls in love. But she is really in love with Jimmy’s buddy, Fred (Spencer Tracy), a carnival barker. When Fred returns he decides to support Jimmy and Rose marrying, even though it breaks his heart.
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THEY GAVE HIM A GUN. 1937. 10 reels, sd, b&w. From the novel by William Joyce Cowen. Credits: Producer, Harry Rapf; director, W. S. Van Dyke, II; screenplay, Cyril Hume, Richard Maibaum, Maurice Rapf; film editor, Ben Lewis. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.; 12May37; LP7165.
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- Wikidata · Q7783714 ↗ — color, country
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