Good Luck, Mr. Yates (1943)

Director:

Ray Enright

Writers:

Lou Breslow, Adele Comandini,

Stars:

Claire Trevor, Jess Barker, Edgar Buchanan

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Claire Trevor	...	Ruth Jones
Jess Barker	...	Oliver B. Yates
Edgar Buchanan	...	Jonesey Jones
Tom Neal	...	Charlie Edmonds
Albert Bassermann	...	Dr. Carl Hesser
Henry Armetta	...	Mike Zaloris
Scotty Beckett	...	Jimmy Dixon
Tommy Cook	...	Johnny Zaloris
Frank Sully	...	Joe Briggs
Douglas Leavitt	...	Monty King
Rosina Galli	...	Katy Zaloris
William Roy	...	Plunkett (as Billy Roy)
Conrad Binyon	...	Rob Coles
Bobby Larson	...	Ross
Rudy Wissler	...	Wilson

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

teacher | period in title | enlistment | sabotage | character name in title

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Taglines:

Glorifying The American Girl... On The Home Front!

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Genres:

Drama | War

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

29 June 1943 (USA)

Also Known As:

Right Guy

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

70 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

User Reviews

Bizarre censorship

A pretty average wartime movie, but one that gets a mention in Tim Pat Coogan's biography of "De Valera: Long Fellow, Long Shadow".

In 1943, as Prime Minister of Eire, De Valera, made a famous/an infamous St Patrick's Day broadcast to celebrate "The Ireland Which We Dreamed Of": "cosy farmsteads, ... fields and villages ... joyous with sounds of industry, with the romping of sturdy children, the contests of athletic youths and the laughter of comely maidens, whose firesides would be forums for the wisdom of serene old age."

This fantasy (remembering what was going on at Stalingrad, North Africa, the Battle of the Atlantic and Guadancanal) provoked the US Minister in Dublin, David Gray, to write to President Roosevelt: "Meanwhile the Censor is loose again. The American flag was recently cut out of a film called 'Good luck Mr. Yates' ... Meanwhile I am surrounded by mountains of turf, some two hundred and fifty thousand tons, all brought from the interior with American gasoline. If I go nuts can you blame me?"