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Director
  
Edward L. Cahn

Music director
  
David Snell

Duration
  

Language
  
English

7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Short, History

Country
  
United States

Cast
  
John Nesbitt

Release date
  
1941 (1941)

Writer
  
Karl Kamb (original story and screenplay)

Awards
  
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel

Similar movies
  
Churchills Island (1941), The Chocolate Soldier (1941), Blossoms in the Dust (1941), The Wizard of Oz (1939), Here Comes Mr Jordan (1941)

Main Street on the March! is a 1941 American short historical film directed by Edward Cahn. It won an Academy Award at the 14th Academy Awards for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). The 20-minute film gives a brief history of events in Europe and the U.S. in the year and a half leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Cast

  • John Nesbitt - Narrator (voice)
  • Raymond Gram Swing - Himself (voice) (archive sound)
  • Neville Chamberlain - Himself (voice) (archive sound)
  • H. V. Kaltenborn - Himself (voice) (archive sound)
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Himself (archive footage)
  • Winston Churchill - Himself (voice) (archive footage)
  • George C. Marshall - Himself (archive footage)
  • William S. Knudsen - Himself (archive footage)
  • Admiral Harold R. Stark - Himself (archive footage)

    • Robert Blake, then 8 years old, makes a cameo appearance in a kitchen scene.

    References

    Main Street on the March! Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Main Street on the March! IMDb Main Street on the March! themoviedb.org


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