"Thrill TO THE DRAMA OF UNCLE SAM'S NEW JUMP FIGHTERS!..." 12 September 1941 Drama, Romance 75 mins
Pre-Pearl Harbor propaganda film about young Americans, from various social backgrounds, who undergo parachute training at Fort Benning prior to becoming paratroopers.
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Robert Preston as Donald Morse
Edmond O'Brien as William Mayberry Burke
Buddy Ebsen as Jeff Hollis
Nancy Kelly as Kit Richards
Harry Carey as Bill Richards
Paul Kelly as Tex McBride
Richard Cromwell as Spence
Robert Barrat as Col. Burke
Edward Fielding as Chief Of Infantry
Erville Alderson as Pa Hollis
Kathryn Sheldon as Ma Hollis
Selmer Jackson as Thomas Morse
Grant Withers as Captain
Lee Bonnell as Private
Robert Smith as Private
Gayne Whitman as Staff Officer
Leslie Goodwins Director
Howard Benedict Producer
Theron Warth Editor
John Twist Screenplay
J. Roy Hunt Director of Photography
Van Nest Polglase Art Direction
Hugh Fite Screenplay
Renié Costume Design
Vernon L. Walker Special Effects
Roy Webb Original Music Composer
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United States 14 August 1941
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Stars: Buddy Ebsen Robert Preston Edmond O'Brien Director: Leslie Goodwins In this patriotic war drama a unit of Army recruits train for a parachute corps.
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These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1941:
18 April 1941
A town bedeviled with outlaws sends for Hoppy, Lucky and California after their own vigilante committee fails to solve the towns problems.
09 October 1941
In this Robert Benchley instructional video, he demonstrates the pitfalls of a homebody husband attempting to take a vacation apart from his wife.
28 March 1941
The story of a rich man's son who has just reached the age of adolescence. With his money and good looks, he starts out to conquer the world, especially the feminine world thinking he is the master of everything because of his financial and social standing.
10 January 1941
Tom Cameron is searching for the outlaws who ambushed a wagon train, murdered his parents and stole the deed to their land.
27 August 1941
A "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.
31 January 1941
Serials usually spawned feature film versions, but with this film, it was the other way around. A 1932 Buck Jones Western, White Eagle was made into a serial nine years later, again starring Jones in the title role, a (supposedly) Native American Pony Express Rider defending his people against a gang of evil Whites.
03 September 1941
The title might sound shocking, but the red hands mean, the hands which drag fishnets. Ohama, 15 or 16 years old girl lost her family and lived alone in a fishermen's village.
11 July 1941
Falsely accused of murder, Billy is able to escape thanks to his pals. Once in Santa Fe, he meets once again the man who lied during the trial.
12 April 1941
This Traveltalk series short visit to Kentucky starts with a view of the Cumberland River, which flows for about 700 miles through the state.
08 March 1941
A high-society gent has a secret life - he writes murder mysteries and hangs out with the police attempting to solve crimes.
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