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16 September 1944 (USA)
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A powerful propaganda film--on our side!
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Michael Redgrave | ... | David Charleston |
| Barbara Mullen | ... | Ellen Kirby |
 | James Mason | ... | Streeter |
| Lilli Palmer | ... | Melanie Kurtz |
| Finlay Currie | ... | Capt. Joshua Stuart |
| Frederick Valk | ... | Dr. Stefan Kurtz |
| Sybille Binder | ... | Anne-Marie Kurtz |
| Frederick Cooper | ... | Edward 'Te' Briggs |
| Jean Shepherd | ... | Mrs. Millie Briggs |
| Barry Morse | ... | Robert |
| George Carney | ... | Harry |
| Miles Malleson | ... | Chairman of Directors |
| Bryan Herbert | ... | Flanning (as Brian Herbert) |
| James Pirrie | ... | Jim - the New Pilot |
| A.E. Matthews | ... | Mr. Kirby |
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112 min | USA:90 min
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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Referenced in Portrait of Jennie (1948)
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I saw this movie in 1942, when I worked for the War Department and had just enlisted in the Army Air Corps, so this might account for the strong memories I have of it.
I was a little shocked that it seemed almost pure propaganda. However, it was clearly made for a British audience at a time when the nation was in imminent danger of invasion by the Nazis. Its message was never to give up hope.
It opens with the hero being frightened by the spread of Fascism across Europe. He goes into a London movie house where the depressing newsreel is followed by a cartoon which the unthinking audience finds hilarious. Disgusted, he gives up and withdraws into himself. He becomes a sort of hermit and somehow gets a job as a lighthouse-keeper on the Great Lakes.
Browsing through the lighthouse's log, he finds an account of a shipwreck. As he reads, the viewer notices that the lighthouse's central pole is now at an angle--a very clever hint of the transition to the fantasy now taking place. He is now on board the sinking ship and all is confusion and despair. But it turns out OK--the first example of the message (to the English) not to give up hope.
There are several other such episodes including one about the doctor in Vienna who discovers that doctors not washing their hands is how the deadly childbirth fever infection is spread. A failure, he is laughed out of town. But a few years later his radical theory is proved correct. Another morale boost for the discouraged wartime English.
I can't remember how the movie ends--but I've never forgotten the movie!