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"The Fighting 69th (1940) IMDB Alright, let me just start by saying that I'm not a big fan of James Cagney, and I'm not really sure why. Maybe its just because every role I've seen him in has just been either flat and uninteresting, or just downright annoying. Like his portrayal of the misfit Private Plunkett in 1940's The Fighting 69th.The Fighting 69th purports to be a tribute to a Father Duffy, who was a chaplain attached to the newly formed 42nd Infantry, aka "The Rainbow Division", and formerly part of the New York 69th Infantry, as the Army started getting away from the practice of having these regional divisions and moved to more mixed and diverse units.
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"Imagine this scenario: You are a soldier in WWI. There is a jerk in your unit named Plunkett who is both a coward and incompetent. He does things like open fire without permission, causing a rain of enemy shells that also killed three of your fellow soldiers. Plunkett also gets scared during missions and screams, alerting the Germans to his presence. Needless to say, he is not that popular in your unit and is about to get transferred out. But then your units chaplain, beloved to the troops, convinces your commanding officer that he'll turn around if you give him one more chance and he's okay with this. If you are that soldier, wouldn't it be time to check to see whether you are either dreaming or doing some kind of hallucinogenic drugs, or perhaps entered another dimension while crossing the Atlantic? So yes, this is one of those stupid movies Hollywood started to make around the end of the thirties, when American pictures started to go downhill. This is kind of the old-f ... "
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