A prescient documentary about city planning, which presents idyllic suburbs and nuclear families as a solution to the chaos, poverty and social decay of industrialized inner cities.
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Morris Carnovsky as Narrator (voice)
Willard Van Dyke Director
United States 30 June 1973
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Directed by Robert Siodmak. "The Chair for Martin Rome" by Henry Edward Helseth. Screenplay by Richard Murphy. Original Music by Alfred Newman.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1939:
10 August 1939
The king paces back and forth; a knight rushes in with the news: It's a boy! The knight visits the three wise fairies with the news, inviting them to a ball in celebration.
28 July 1939
An agent for the state attorney general poses as a convict to learn about bank loot.
21 August 1939
Young Dorothy finds herself in a magical world where she makes friends with a lion, a scarecrow and a tin man as they make their way along the yellow brick road to talk with the Wizard and ask for the things they miss most in their lives.
07 April 1939
This is the story of the historic 1938 flight of Douglas 'Wrong Way' Corrigan. Mr. Corrigan starred in this film, which chronicled his infamous flight.
24 March 1939
A dedicated police officer is torn between family and duty when his son turns to a life of crime.
09 September 1939
Walter Finchell, the tattletale gossip of the jungle, broadcasts from the treetop that Mr. and Mrs. Panda were presented with a baby boy, whom Mrs.
01 August 1939
The crusading Dr. Kent tries to convince the district attorney to clean up the local abortion racket and help open a birth control clinic.
25 October 1939
A car mechanic saves his friend from getting fired when money is missing at his office.
22 December 1939
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
15 June 1939
In September 1938, an American diplomat negotiated in London the peace of Munich, rather than rush to Paris where his wife, a famous film actress, is about to fall into the arms of a young first.
19 May 1939
Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk.
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