Main Street Today

Overview

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

Top cast

J

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)

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