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The Fighting Generation

  • 1944
  • 2m
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5.3/10
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The Fighting Generation (1944)
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Short film to promote the sale of war bonds.Short film to promote the sale of war bonds.Short film to promote the sale of war bonds.

  • Director
    • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Writer
    • Stephen Longstreet
  • Stars
    • Jennifer Jones
    • Rhonda Fleming
    • Steve Dunhill
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.3/10
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    • Director
      • Alfred Hitchcock
    • Writer
      • Stephen Longstreet
    • Stars
      • Jennifer Jones
      • Rhonda Fleming
      • Steve Dunhill
    • 2User reviews
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    Jennifer Jones
    Jennifer Jones
    • Nurse's Aide
    Rhonda Fleming
    Rhonda Fleming
    • Nurse's Aide
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    Steve Dunhill
    Steve Dunhill
    • Patient
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    Tony Devlin
    • Convalescent
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    • Director
      • Alfred Hitchcock
    • Writer
      • Stephen Longstreet
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    They Needed Hitchcock To Shoot This?

    Although his name is not credited anywhere, Alfred Hitchcock is acknowledged as the uncredited director of this short film exhorting the audience to take part in the Sixth War Loan series by buying bonds. There's a reality-bending prologue in which Eddie Bracken in the audience watches Eddie Bracken on the screen make the pitch; this strikes me as more in the line of Bracken's occasional director, Preston Sturges, than Hitchcock's sense of humor. In the second part, nurse Jennifer Jones urges us to buy bonds to help make sure that men like her wounded childhood friend lying on the hospital cot there, can win the war.

    As remarked, neither seems particularly Hitchcockian, but it's quite possible, given his relationship with Selznick, at whose studio this was shot. It's just that we're so used to Hitchcock as a visual stylist that it seems odd.

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    • Trivia
      This World War II propaganda short was filmed for the United States Treasury Department in one day on October 9, 1944. It was used to raise money for the Sixth War Loan.

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    • Release date
      • October 1944 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Generación luchadora
    • Production company
      • Vanguard Films
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    • Runtime
      • 2m
    • Color
      • Black and White
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.37 : 1

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