Main Street Today
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.
Directed by Edward L. Cahn · Written by Karl Kamb
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Cast
- John Nesbitt Narrator (voice)
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Ray Collins Otis Bird -
Henry O'Neill Vance Clark -
Addison Richards Fred Baker -
Morris Ankrum Mayor Charlie Maxwell (uncredited) -
George M. Carleton Store Owner Welburn Sprague (uncredited) -
Mary Currier Mrs. Hunter (uncredited) -
Robert Dudley Frank Hostetter (uncredited) -
Herbert Heyes General (uncredited) -
Stuart Holmes Citizen at Town Meeting (uncredited) -
Lew Kelly Electrician Art Hoover at Town Meeting (uncredited) -
Colin Kenny Man at Town Meeting (uncredited)
Make it a double feature
1h 22m together
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