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6.9/10   775 votes
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Director:
Victor Fleming
Writers:
Chandler Sprague (story) and
David Boehm (story) ...
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Release Date:
March 1944 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance | War | Fantasy more
Tagline:
A GUY - A GAL - A PAL - It's Swell!
Plot:
A sentimental, patriotic (if not propagandistic) Hollywood fantasy about a dead World War II bomber pilot... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
NewsDesk:
(3 articles)
Van Johnson: 1916 - 2008
 (From IMDb News. 14 December 2008, 1:27 PM, PST)

Hollywood veteran Van Johnson dies
 (From digitalspy. 13 December 2008, 9:16 PM, PST)

User Comments:
This is a touching story about love which knows no end. more

Cast

  (Complete credited cast)

Spencer Tracy ... Pete Sandidge

Irene Dunne ... Dorinda Durston

Van Johnson ... Ted Randall
Ward Bond ... Al Yackey
James Gleason ... 'Nails' Kilpatrick

Lionel Barrymore ... The General
Barry Nelson ... Dick Rumney
Esther Williams ... Ellen Bright
Henry O'Neill ... Colonel Sykes
Don DeFore ... James J. Rourke (as Don De Fore)
Charles Smith ... Sanderson
Addison Richards ... Major Corbett
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Additional Details

Runtime:
120 min | USA:122 min (copyright length)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
Certification:
Australia:PG | Finland:S | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #9727) | USA:Passed (National Board of Review)
Company:
Loew's more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The War Department initially did not approve the script, fearing psychological damage to new and experienced pilots and their parents. It relented after 2 revisions and promised full cooperation. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When "Nails" confronts Pete with a combat photo of Pete's bomber flying much too low during a raid, the aircraft seen in the picture is a Lockheed Hudson. Pete piloted a North American B-25 Mitchell. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in The Heavenly Kid (1985) more
Soundtrack:
I'll See You in My Dreams more

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9 out of 11 people found the following comment useful:-
This is a touching story about love which knows no end., 30 March 2000
Author: lady_eve from United States

This is one of the best love stories ever. It isn't a war story, war simply happens to be the setting. And I don't see how a movie can prevent nations from winning a war. The whole fact that Spencer Tracy's character loves Irene Dunne's so much that he will watch her marry another man is the most amazing testimony of love. I don't know how you can watch one of the final scenes; in which Tracy and Dunne are in the plane and he says that their love is too good to make her unhappy; and still call "A Guy Named Joe," a silly movie. Again, the war was simply a setting, because war in itself isn't very interesting, it is the human experience in war which creates a story.

The Fact that Spielberg enjoyed and admired it so much that he remade it also says a little for the film.

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