claudette colbert head up a team of army nurse care for the wounded and die in so proudly we hail . it a great ensemble of fine actress and include paulette goddard and veronica lake and barbara britton and others . this be the woman story and not often told and but certainly harrowing and inspiring . these nurse be in the phillipines when macarthur pull out and they become strand on corregidor . the film be tell in flashback and when the woman be actually on their way home by ship and and colbert and who play davy ( janet davidson ) be catatonic . the ship doctor be try to figure out how to help her and ask the woman to tell their story . it a rough one and fill with bombing and filth and malaria and little food and exhaustion and and die . when so proudly we hail . be release and no one know how the war would end a we do now and and the fall of the philippine be see a a major defeat for the u. s. i suspect that although the impact of see it today be very strong and it must have be a lot strong for wartime audience . a mentioned and it be wartime and so hollywood do not have a lot of men to choose from . george reef today himself the subject of a film play davy love interest and john and and he not only hunky but excellent . i couldn not figure out if he have a good speaking voice or i be just so used to hear it after grow up with superman . but he very effective and and it sad that after serve in the war and he couldn not get his career back on track . unfortunately and that happen to many actor who be just get a foothold when war break out . the other actor be the often malign sonny tuft and a big and good look blond who wasn not much of an actor and but he doesn not detract from the film either . he be probably more suited to this role than he be to others later on . but this be a woman movie all the way . at 40 and colbert be probably a little old for the role . however and she do a good job a a tough but motherly woman and protective of her nurse and quite the rule breaker herself after she meet john . veronica lake give what be perhaps her best performance a the angry olivia . the support oscar nomination should have go to her it a showy role and and she do a fantastic job . paulette goddard do receive the nomination . she a flirty and sexy man magnet and extremely likable . i have always think in real life and with all that charm and charisma and she must have have to beat men off with a stick . so proudly we hail . give a realistic a depiction of the condition of war and the tremendous work of the nurse who serve . it cover the same material a the excellent cry havoc . also about nurse on bataan . i highly recommend both film . a a bit of trivia and there be nurse who do not get out of corregidor and be capture . they work in the prison hospital and have to endure terrible condition and but surprisingly and they do survive a tribute to their incredible inner strength and devotion to the wound .