01 January 1944 Factual, War 42 mins
Know Your Ally: Britain was a 45-minute propaganda film made in 1944. It was narrated by Walter Huston and produced by the United States War Department and Signal Corp to solidify Anglo-American solidarity within the ranks as well as counter Nazi propaganda aimed at weakening the Alliance.
Watch the official Know Your Ally: Britain 1944 trailer in HD below or find more Know Your Ally: Britain videos on Vidimovie.
Walter Huston as Narrator
Ernest Bevin as Self (archive footage)
Winston Churchill as Self (archive footage)
Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage)
Herbert Morrison as Self (archive footage)
Louis Mountbatten as Self (archive footage)
Benito Mussolini as Self (archive footage)
Franklin D. Roosevelt as Self (archive footage)
Orson Welles as Narrator/Bob (helpful taxi passenger)
Robert Stevenson Director
United States 01 January 1944
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From pre-war complacency to the burdens of wartime taxation and shortages this filmed record demonstrates the courage and resourcefulness of the British ...
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22 October 1944
A romantic comedy about a writer coming back to Finland is bored with the High Society life and starts a modeling job for a young and beautiful painter Ilona.
15 April 1944
When Bigshot Jones gives his unnamed dog to the All-For-One Club, Buckwheat quickly names the canine "Smallpox", inadvertently causing a city-wide panic.
06 March 1944
Inger lives at home with his parents. She suspects that she is pregnant. A doctor notes her pregnancy and urge her to seek the child's father.
03 March 1944
Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.
21 January 1944
Before his death, Mansour Pasha writes over his wealth to his two sons Omar and Othman; as the latter drowns, his wife gets a boy and claims he is Othman's son to ensure her share in the inheritance.
29 July 1944
This one finds Jack Slade and Mary Conway,alias Blanche, being recognized as known and wanted crooks by deputy marshal Harry Stevens and, when he orders them out of town, Slade kills him.
01 August 1944
Social Democratic election film. Young Lasse is unemployed and drawn to the Communists. However, he comes to the Social Democratic fold after heroically capturing a saboteur.
03 June 1944
Muggs and Glimpy, two East Side Kids in the army, return to their neighborhood, supposedly on furlough; actually, Muggs has been honorably discharged with a physical defect, but he tells no one of this.
23 March 1944
In this wartime western, an evil Nazi and his partner endeavor to sabotage a western gunsight plant.
23 September 1944
Brash ladies' man James Dale and his partner, wisecracking Everett Northrup, are sent by Cartell & Co.
30 December 1944
Having been falsely court marshaled for cowardice and sentenced to prison by the Army, Jed Kilton escapes and heads to Nevada Springs to see his kid brother.
01 January 1944
Nora and Stefan fall in love with one another after an accident takes place, but then end up losing sight of one another later on.
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