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Gangway for Tomorrow: Directed by John H. Auer. With Margo, John Carradine, Robert Ryan, Amelita Ward. On the way to work, five defence workers contemplate their pasts and their own reasons for working.
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- Drama
- John H. Auer
- 1943-11-03
Gangway for Tomorrow is a 1943 American anthology film produced and directed by the Austrian-American John H. Auer, and originally known by its working title, An American Story. Steeped in the propaganda tones of early World War II features, the film is largely B-fare.
Gangway for Tomorrow is one such movie, following in flashback the back stories of five defense plant workers. As they travel to their jobs in a single car, each tells what brought them to their present positions: a race car driver rendered ineligible for service after a bad crash, a former Miss America whose quest for fame came to naught, a ...
- John H. Auer, Dixie Mccoy, Lloyd Richards
- Margo
Gangway for Tomorrow. As co-workers at a World War II-era airplane factory carpool to their job, they recall their lives prior to the war. French Lisette (Margo) escaped her Nazi-occupied...
- John H. Auer
- Drama
- Margo
Gangway for Tomorrow (1943) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Screenplay. Five defense workers on their way to the munitions factory tell their stories: a refugee from the French Resistance, a frustrated race car driver, a prison warden, a former Miss America, and an intellectual who dropped out of society and saw the country as a bum.
Like Youth, Gangway is an obscure film that RKO fractured, altered, and reassembled to meet the concerns of the US government propaganda agency known as the Office of War Information (OWI).
