WarHistoryDrama
Main Street Today
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.
Directed by Edward L. Cahn
63
User score
6 votes
Status
Released
Released
March 25, 1944
Runtime
20m
Language
English
Top cast
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)
Ruth Lee
Helen (uncredited)
Howard M. Mitchell
Grocer Frank Victor (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
Citizen at Town Meeting (uncredited)
Forbes Murray
Businessman (uncredited)
Harry 'Snub' Pollard
Pop Denton (uncredited)
Walter Soderling
Banker on Citizens Committee (uncredited)
William Tannen
Department of Transportation Representative (uncredited)
Ray Teal
Ed a Citizen at Committee Meeting (uncredited)
