Main Street Today

  • War
  • History
  • Drama
3/25/1944
20

Storyline

This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.

Director:
Edward L. Cahn
Writers:
Karl Kamb
Julian Harmon
    • small town
    • propaganda
    • patriotism
    • wartime
    • manufacturing
    • workforce
    • production
    • defense plant
    • weapons manufacturer
    • manufacturing plant

    Cast

    • John Nesbitt
      Narrator (voice)
    • Ray Collins
      Otis Bird
    • Henry O'Neill
      Vance Clark
    • Addison Richards
      Fred Baker
    • Morris Ankrum
      Mayor Charlie Maxwell (uncredited)
    • George M. Carleton
      Store Owner Welburn Sprague (uncredited)
    • Mary Currier
      Mrs. Hunter (uncredited)
    • Robert Dudley
      Frank Hostetter (uncredited)
    • Herbert Heyes
      General (uncredited)
    • Stuart Holmes
      Citizen at Town Meeting (uncredited)
    • Lew Kelly
      Electrician Art Hoover at Town Meeting (uncredited)
    • Colin Kenny
      Man at Town Meeting (uncredited)
    • Ruth Lee
      Helen (uncredited)
    • Howard M. Mitchell
      Grocer Frank Victor (uncredited)
    • Bert Moorhouse
      Citizen at Town Meeting (uncredited)
    • Forbes Murray
      Businessman (uncredited)

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