A Letter from a Soldier (1951)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Don Weis

Writers:

Lucille Schlossberg (story)
Allen Rivkin (writer)

Genre:

Drama | Short

Plot:

A soldier on leave visits a dead son's mother to give her the last letter her son wrote.

Plot Keywords:

Mother | Veteran | WWII

Cast

Marjorie Main	...	Mrs. Wrenley
Keefe Brasselle	...	Maxie Klein

Runtime:

9 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

Anti-Defamation League of B'nai Brith

Trivia:

This is an excerpted sequence from It's a Big Country (1951), a feature film.

Movie Connections:

Edited from It's a Big Country (1951)

I wouldn't call this Propaganda....

Most movies back then were propaganda films to get people to join the service to either go off to war or just to join or what not. I don't see this to be about the Korean war and about joining I think this is basically about the soldier's themselves.

And in that regard I like it. So, it is a 9 minute movie that isn't a waste of your time.

7/10