Product Details

• Actors: Gary Cooper, David Niven, Andrea Leeds, Reginald Owen, Broderick Crawford
• Directors: Henry Hathaway
• Writers: Charles L. Clifford, Jo Swerling
• Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, NTSC
• Language: English, Latin
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: United Artists
• VHS Release Date: July 7, 1994
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302413680
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #204,313 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars wow!, July 10, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Real Glory [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I watched this movie for the first time today. And what a treat! The characters are cast extremely well, with Gary Cooper as a down-to-earth Army medic who can track patrols in the jungle, capture assasins, fight a cholera epidemic, and blow a dam, not to mention falling in love in the process. The storyline is as follows: an Army colonel is given the difficult job of training Filipino soldiers in a dangerous section of the Philipines, right when the Army pulls out, leaving him with a handful of officers and a doctor. The local bandit chief has the colonel and his next-in-command killed by fanatics. From then on there is open war between soldiers and bandits. The new CO must get the Filipino soldiers into fighting condition before the bandits attack, and the doctor disagrees with his methods. The tension mounts until the final battle when the native soldiers prove that they can take care of themselves.
This movie has a lot of dialogue about fear, which reminded me of FDR's phrase: "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." This movie was put out in 1939, when there was a lot of fear circulating. We were still in the Depression, and things were heating up in Europe. So the overall message against fear was very appropriate for the times. This is a very good story!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A skewed history of the Philippines, but a good action flick, January 7, 2003

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Real Glory [VHS] (VHS Tape)

By coincidence, I rented this the night before the World Trade Center bombings, and this pre-WWII action film definitely had an eerie feel later in the week, when I got around to watching it. Gary Cooper plays an Army doctor contending with Muslim fanatics in the Philippines -- including grim assassins who attacked the Army leaders in suicide missions that they believed would send them to heaven, with the blessing of Allah. Besides the creepy timeliness, this is also a gripping action film; raw, realistic and well-paced, this is a fascinating movie, even if its historical accuracy is somewhat questionable.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THE REAL GLORY-- A GREAT MOVIE, June 18, 2001

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BILL SCHWAB (Norwalk, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Real Glory [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The Real Glory is a great movie. With Gary Cooper, David Niven and Broderick Crawford how could it be anything else. A real War/Adventure epic of a Phillipine rebellian in the dawn of the 20th century. Anyone who knew anything about the Phillipines could understand just what was happening. In fact similar things are happening in the Phillipines today without any US troops involved, just a few American citizens about to be beheaded.