Promotional film demonstrating the importance of newspapers in everyday life. Set during the citywide strike of newspaper delivery truck drivers in the summer of 1945, the film shows how the public literally went the extra mile to get their papers directly from the Daily News (the film's sponsor). Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia does his part by reading aloud the Dick Tracy comic strip on the radio.
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17 Days: The Story of Newspaper History in the Making
How a New York City newspaper delivery drivers' strike in 1945 failed to divert readers' interest in their favorite newspapers. Shows the newspapers of the day ...
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An agrarian community sometime in the 1700s. The farmer Påvel is married with his young wife Märit and very proud to have married such a young and sweet girl.
A cavalry officer is framed for the murder of a fellow officer and cashiered out of the army. After he gets out of prison he vows to find the renegade who framed him and bring him to justice.
One of the early films of Chhabi Biswas featuring him as a leading man, before he came to be associated with the dominating patriarch roles that have become iconic in Bengali cinema, the film is a tale of the love, relationships and ideals of two generations.
A U. S. Marines dog is returned to his young owner in the small town of Monrovia at the end of WWII, but a grouchy neighbor believes the animal's military training makes him a threat to the community and files charges to have the dog destroyed.
