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Main Street Today

Main Street Today (1944)

0h 20m | PG-13

⭐ 6.2 / 10

This patriotic short film promotes America's war effort at home. The story looks at a fictional small town's main street, seeing where additional workforce, for increased production of materials needed by the military, might come from.

Director: Edward L. Cahn

Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Genre: War, History, Drama

Video: 720p

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Cast

John Nesbitt

John Nesbitt

as Narrator (voice)

Ray Collins

Ray Collins

as Otis Bird

Henry O'Neill

Henry O'Neill

as Vance Clark

Addison Richards

Addison Richards

as Fred Baker

Morris Ankrum

Morris Ankrum

as Mayor Charlie Maxwell (uncredited)

George M. Carleton

George M. Carleton

as Store Owner Welburn Sprague (uncredited)