Main Street on the March!

1941 film

  • 1941 (1941)
Running time
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Main Street on the March! is a 1941 American short historical film directed by Edward Cahn. It won an Academy Award at the 14th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).[1][2] The 20-minute film gives a brief history of events in Europe and the U.S. in the year and a half leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Plot summary

Cast

  • John Nesbitt - Narrator (voice)
  • Raymond Gram Swing - Himself (voice) (archive sound)
  • Neville Chamberlain - Himself (voice) (archive sound)
  • H. V. Kaltenborn - Himself (voice) (archive sound)
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Himself (archive footage)
  • Winston Churchill - Himself (voice) (archive footage)
  • George C. Marshall - Himself (archive footage)
  • William S. Knudsen - Himself (archive footage)
  • Admiral Harold R. Stark - Himself (archive footage)

Robert Blake, then 8 years old, makes an appearance in a kitchen scene.

References

  1. ^ "The 14th Academy Awards (1942) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Retrieved June 25, 2013.
  2. ^ "New York Times: Main Street on the March!". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on January 30, 2013. Retrieved May 17, 2008.

External links

  • Main Street on the March! at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • Main Street on the March! at the TCM Movie Database
  • Main Street on the March! at AllMovie
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