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Blondie for Victory (1942) starring Penny Singleton, Arthur Lake

Blondie for Victory

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In Blondie for Victory, Blondie organizes the Housewives of America to support the war effort. But that leaves all the housework to the husbands! And they don’t like it!

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The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960) starring Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson

The Wackiest Ship in the Army

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The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960) starring Jack Lemmon, Ricky Nelson

The Wackiest Ship in the Army is a World War II comedy/drama starring Jack Nicholson, who’s tasked with taking a floating hunk of junk across the ocean on a top secret mission …

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The Man Who Never Was (1956), starring Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng

The Man Who Never Was

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The Man Who Never Was (1956), starring Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng

The Man Who Never Was is a World War II thriller. In order to mislead the Nazis about an invasion, the British take an anonymous corpse, “make” him a fake officer, plant fake orders on him, and leave the corpse where the Nazis will find him…

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The Juggler (1953) starring Kirk Douglas, Milly Vitale, Joseph Walsh

The Juggler

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The Juggler (1953) starring Kirk Douglas, Milly Vitale, Joseph Walsh

The Juggler is a powerful, touching story of a Holocaust survivor. Once a world-famous juggler, he’s made his way to Israel. He blames himself for the deaths of his wife and child in the Nazi death camps.

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Father Goose, starring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron

Father Goose

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Father Goose (1964) starring Cary Grant, Leslie Caron

Father Goose is a strange, funny, war-of-the-sexes story that turns into a love story. It’s set during World War II, with Cary Grant and Leslie Caron.

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Flight Command, starring Robert Taylor, Ruth Hussey, Walter Pidgeon

Flight Command

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Flight Command (1940) starring Robert Taylor, Walter Pidgeon, Ruth Hussey, Red Skelton

I originally watched  Flight Command because it was one of Red Skelton‘s earliest movie roles — which is technically true; Red’s in the film as part of the Hellcats squadron, acting as the class clown, but he’s definitely a secondary character.  Flight Command is primarily about a brash young pilot, Alan Drake (played by Robert Taylor) who’s recruited straight out of college to join the premier squad of Navy Hellcats.  He has trouble fitting in at first, although the flight commander (played by a young and dashing Walter Pidgeon) tries to help — as does the commander’s wife (played by Ruth Hussey). There’s a suspected romantic triangle between Drake and the commander’s wife (which was only him trying to console her on the death of her brother) — but all turns out well in the end.

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