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Director:
Edward Dmytryk
Writer:
Dalton Trumbo (written by)
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Release Date:
June 1944 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama more
Plot:
Ginger Rogers, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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Ginger Rogers ... Jo Jones

Robert Ryan ... Chris Jones
Ruth Hussey ... Barbara Thomas
Patricia Collinge ... Helen Stacey
Mady Christians ... Manya Lodge

Kim Hunter ... Doris Dumbrowski
Jane Darwell ... Mrs. Henderson
Richard Martin ... Mike Dumbrowski
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Additional Details

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Runtime:
102 min (copyright length) | 101 min (Turner library print)
Country:
USA
Language:
English | German
Color:
Black and White
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (RCA Sound System)
Certification:
USA:Approved (PCA #9586) | USA:TV-PG (TV rating)
Company:
RKO Radio Pictures more

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Trivia:
This film was introduced as evidence when director Edward Dmytryk and writer Dalton Trumbo were hauled before the House Un-American Activities Committee, which was investigating them on suspicion of being Communists. Despite the film's many flag-waving speeches, the communal living arrangements of the ladies in the film was cited as evidence of how Dmytryk and Trumbo attempted to brainwash unsuspecting American moviegoers with Communist "propaganda". As even more damning "evidence", there was the use of the word "Comrade" in the title. more
Quotes:
Jo Jones: We're running this house like a democracy!
Manya Lodge: Once, in Germany, we had a democracy. But...
Helen Stacey: But you lost it?
Manya Lodge: No, we didn't lose it. We let it be murdered - like a little child.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "The Century" (1999) more
Soundtrack:
Cradle Song (Brahms Lullaby) more

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5 out of 8 people found the following comment useful.
, 17 February 1999
3/10
Author: D.S. Bertolotti (dbertolo@kettering.edu) from flint, mi

It's unfortunate that a film with a good cast never really becomes as good as it might. The idea of women working during the war in the war production plants was critical to the war effort, and the attempts at coping with an almost unbearable life situation with women workers sharing a house while their husbands are overseas was common enough to have true dramatic value; yet, this movie never seems to reach its high potential.

The reason seems to be in the incredibly poor script, not so much in terms of plot, but in relation to what seems to be substandard language. It's unfortunate that the actors are saddled with such lines as: "If I see you looking sideways at another girl, I'm going to hit you over the head with an axe handle," "It's okay, mom, he's going to marry me," "Why don't the mice pay their share of the rent," "You don't carry a mop length-wise...you carry it like a fishing pole," and "I'm going to beat those rugs until they sit up and yell 'Uncle'."

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