Main Street Today (1944)
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.
- Date of release
- 1944-03-25
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (6)
- Runtime
- 20m
- Genres
- War, History, Drama
- Director
- Edward L. Cahn
Casting
- John Nesbitt — Narrator (voice)
- Ray Collins — Otis Bird
- Henry O'Neill — Vance Clark
- Addison Richards — Fred Baker
- Morris Ankrum — Mayor Charlie Maxwell (uncredited)
- George M. Carleton — Store Owner Welburn Sprague (uncredited)
- Mary Currier — Mrs. Hunter (uncredited)
- Robert Dudley — Frank Hostetter (uncredited)
- Herbert Heyes — General (uncredited)
- Stuart Holmes — Citizen at Town Meeting (uncredited)
- Lew Kelly — Electrician Art Hoover at Town Meeting (uncredited)
- Colin Kenny — Man at Town Meeting (uncredited)
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