See Here, Private Hargrove (film)

See Here, Private Hargrove is a 1944 black-and-white comedy film from MGM, produced by George Haight, directed by Wesley Ruggles, and starring Robert Walker, Donna Reed, and Keenan Wynn. The film was adapted from the 1942 memoir of the same name by Marion Hargrove.

See Here, Private Hargrove
Directed by	Wesley Ruggles
Screenplay by	Harry Kurnitz
Based on	See Here, Private Hargrove 1942 book by Marion Hargrove
Produced by	George Haight
Starring	Robert Walker Donna Reed Keenan Wynn
Cinematography	Charles Lawton Jr.
Edited by	Frank E. Hull
Music by	David Snell Lennie Hayton
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date	March 18, 1944 (1944-03-18)
Running time	101 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The film was followed by a 1945 sequel, What Next, Corporal Hargrove?, which followed Hargrove to France.^[1]

Plot

The storyline unfolds as a series of humorous anecdotes about Marion Hargrove's tenure in the U.S. Army while at boot camp in Fort Bragg, NC during the early days of World War II.

Cast

• Robert Walker as Pvt. Marion Hargrove
• Donna Reed as Carol Holliday
• Keenan Wynn as Pvt. Mulvehill
• Grant Mitchell as Uncle George
• Ray Collins as Brody S. Griffith
• Chill Wills as First Sgt. Cramp
• Bob Crosby as Bob
• Marta Linden as Mrs. Holliday
• George Offerman Jr. as Pvt. Orrin Esty
• Edward Fielding as Gen. Dillon
• Donald Curtis as Sgt. Heldon
• William Phillips as Pvt. Bill Burk (as Wm. 'Bill' Phillips)
• Douglas Fowley as Capt. R.S. Manville
• Robert Benchley as Mr. Holliday