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Edgar Brooke (story) (segment 1)
Ray Chordes (segment)
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20 November 1951 (USA) more
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The story, told in eight episodes, covers different facets of the American Spirit, from racial and religious... more | add synopsis
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Definitely American more (6 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Ethel Barrymore | ... | Mrs. Brian Patrick Riordan |
| Keefe Brasselle | ... | Sgt. Maxie Klein |
 | Gary Cooper | ... | Texas |
 | Nancy Davis | ... | Miss Coleman |
 | Van Johnson | ... | Rev. Adam Burch |
 | Gene Kelly | ... | Icarus Xenophon |
 | Janet Leigh | ... | Rosa Szabo Xenophon |
| Marjorie Main | ... | Mrs. Wrenley |
 | Fredric March | ... | Joe Esposito |
| George Murphy | ... | Mr. Callaghan |
 | William Powell | ... | Professor |
| S.Z. Sakall | ... | Stefan Szabo |
| Lewis Stone | ... | Church sexton |
| James Whitmore | ... | Mr. Stacey |
| Keenan Wynn | ... | Michael Fisher |
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89 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Sound System)
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Factual errors: When the census taker asks Ethel Barrymore her name, she replies "Mrs. Brian Patrick Riordan" and he writes it down. Always with censuses, a woman's given name is entered. more
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Edited into A Letter from a Soldier (1951) more
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This par excellence a film only the American could make.I cannot imagine a French,English or Italian director making a movie to glorify his/her country.
Wellmann and co tell us that America is a big country ,with big differences but where everybody has his place in the sun: in the "celebrities" segment,there are plenty of black artists such as Armstrong ,but the civil rights were ignored in 1949.
What saves this naive film containing more finer feelings than a Capra movie,is some kind of humor .Take the first scene on a train and the last sentence of the baffled traveler or the Hungarian daddy who does not want his daughters to marry a Greek,cause we are "enemies" .How great the melting pot is!And so are Gene Kelly and Janet Leigh.
Some stars only appear a few minutes:Gary Cooper tells us what a wonderful state "Lone Star" Texas is where oil spurts out everywhere under your feet;Ethel Barrymore plays a delightful old lady who is cross cause she was not counted when they took a census of the population.
The last sketch ,about glasses ,was perhaps not a very good choice to conclude the movie.
It was,is and will always be a big country.