01 January 1942 Factual 6 mins
Sheffield stands in as 'Smokedale', an industrial Everytown, in this stirring call for "new schools, new hospitals, new roads, new life", after WWII.
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United Kingdom 01 January 1942
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10 July 1942
Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after fickle Lila Dixon gives him the brush.
26 June 1942
Carmelita and Uncle Matt find themselves in a haunted house, but the "ghosts" are actually enemy agents who are trying to frighten away visitors in order to develop a nitroglycerin bomb.
28 April 1942
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family.
14 September 1942
Malvaloca is a good girl who goes wrong until she finds a good man that really loves her, yet her past marks her life.
08 July 1942
A counterfeiting gang implicate a bank employee in their crimes, but their cover-story about a ghost in the house where they do their printing backfires on them.
02 October 1942
Blackmail and murder in a tale of an auto-theft ring.
20 February 1942
J. P. Courtney wants to update the music on the radio program he sponsors, but his wife, Agatha Courtney, is the final authority and addicted to the classics and won't allow him to replace Professor Bistell and his symphonic orchestra.
10 June 1942
René, a bank employee, is suspected of theft and fired from his job. It borders on the worst by following in the footsteps of a misfit, Alexandre.
30 October 1942
Andy, the owner of a bicycle shop, gets involved with one of his customers.
26 June 1942
Racketeer Gillin is paroled from prison and immediately goes to work trying to make an illegal buck from America's war effort.
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