Released - April, 1942 

Directed By - Sam Wood

Starring – Ann Sheridan (Randy Monaghan), Robert Cummings (Parris Mitchell), Ronald Reagan (Drake McHugh), Betty Field (Cassandra Tower), Charles Coburn (Dr. Henry Gordon), Claude Rains (Dr. Alexander Tower), Judith Anderson (Mrs. Harriet Gordon).

Description – A powerful drama set in a midwestern town just before World War I that tells the intertwined story of  its citizens. The story concerns itself particularly with two young men Parris Mitchell, and Drake McHugh.

Revealed through the growing years of these two men will be the corruption and moral decay that lurks behind the peaceful facade of this serene community. There are many difficult facts that must be dealt with including challanges, tragedies, social pressures, and dark secrets.

It’s all there; just under the surface of small town America.

NOTABLE: This motion picture received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Director (Sam Wood), and Best Cinematography, Black and White.

This film was Ronald Reagan’s most notable role and was the inspiration for the title of his 1965 autobiography ‘Where’s the Rest of Me?’

There were problems with the Hays Code regarding this film, as they strongly objected to any reference to incest, homosexuality, nymphomania, and euthenasia.

The town depicted is based on Fulton, Missouri; the actual home of the novel’s author Henry Bellamann.

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Released – August, 1940 

Directed By - Raoul Walsh

Starring – George Raft (Joe Fabrini), Ann Sheridan (Cassie Hartley), Ida Lupino (Lana Carlsen), Humphrey Bogart (Paul Fabrini).

Description – The Fabrini brothers are truck drivers who start their own business. Constantly battleing rivals the two are overworked.  One night they pick up Cassie, a hitchhiker who has just quit her job at a truckstop. Joe immediately starts to fall for her. 

On one run, Paul falls asleep at the wheel and has an accident that causes him to lose an arm. Joe now turns to an old friend, trucking executive Ed Carleson, for work.

Meanwhile, Eds wife Lana has fallen in love with Joe and murders her husband, trying to make it look like an accident. When Joe tells her he is not interested in her, or her offer of a share in her late husband’s trucking business, Lana tries to frame Joe for her husbands murder.

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