Main Street Today (1944)
This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.
- Released
- 1944-03-25
- Genres
- War, History, Drama
- Runtime
- 20 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Edward L. Cahn, Karl Kamb, Julian Harmon
- TMDB rating
- 6.3/10 from 6 votes
Cast
- John Nesbitt as Narrator (voice)
- Ray Collins as Otis Bird
- Henry O'Neill as Vance Clark
- Addison Richards as Fred Baker
- Morris Ankrum as Mayor Charlie Maxwell (uncredited)
- George M. Carleton as Store Owner Welburn Sprague (uncredited)
- Mary Currier as Mrs. Hunter (uncredited)
- Robert Dudley as Frank Hostetter (uncredited)
- Herbert Heyes as General (uncredited)
- Stuart Holmes as Citizen at Town Meeting (uncredited)
- Lew Kelly as Electrician Art Hoover at Town Meeting (uncredited)
- Colin Kenny as Man at Town Meeting (uncredited)