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Main Street Today

Release Year
1944
Runtime
20m
Genres
Drama
History
War
Directed By
Edward L. Cahn
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.

Cast & Crew

Cast

John Nesbitt

Narrator (voice)

Ray Collins

Otis Bird

Henry O'Neill

Vance Clark

Addison Richards

Fred Baker

Morris Ankrum

Mayor Charlie Maxwell (uncredited)

Mary Currier

Mrs. Hunter (uncredited)

Robert Dudley

Frank Hostetter (uncredited)

Herbert Heyes

General (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)

Crew

Edward L. Cahn

Director

Karl Kamb

Screenplay

Julian Harmon

Screenplay

Charles Salerno Jr.

Director of Photography

Tom Biggart

Editor

Jerry Bresler

Producer

Herbert Moulton

Producer

Karl Kamb

Story

Julian Harmon

Story

Richard Duce

Art Direction

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