Keep Your Powder Dry (1945)

September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmacht invades Poland. This day, the sad date when the fate of the world changed forever, the Phoney War began: eight months of uncertainty, preparations, evacuations and skirmishes.

프랑스군의 로샤르 대위는 미군인 게이츠 중위와 공동 임무를 수행한다. 두 사람은 성격 차이로 출발부터 티격태격하지만 결국 사랑에 빠져 결혼까지 한다. 하지만 전시의 이민법 때문에 함께 미국으로 갈 방법이 마땅치 않자 로샤르 대위는 ‘전쟁 신부' 자격으로 입국 허가를 받는다. 군대를 배경으로 성별을 역전시킨 하워드 혹스의 스크루볼 코미디. (2013년 8회 시네바캉스 서울)

After four long years apart, there are so many things returning World War II soldier John Lawrence wants to tell his sweetheart, Mary McKinley. That he loves her. That he's missed her. And that he's married.

A Korean war vet and his bride face subtle and sometimes extreme racism when they return to his home in rural California.

An American ex-GI takes a job as a truck driver to support his British war bride Connie. It isn't long, however, before Harry is blackmailed into joining a smuggling operation run by a conniving criminal.

During World War II, a Cockney woman marries a Canadian soldier and adjusts to life in Alberta.

While husband Tim is away during World War II, Anne Hilton copes with problems on the homefront. Taking in a lodger, Colonel Smollett, to help make ends meet and dealing with shortages and rationing are minor inconveniences compared to the love affair daughter Jane and the Colonel's grandson conduct.

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the government orders it auctioned and sold to the army. Ine struggles to prevent the sale.

Jo Jones, a young defense plant worker whose husband is in the military during World War II, shares a house with three other women in the same situation.

This serious Pete Smith Specialty series entry encourages industry to hire people with disabilities to help with the war effort. As a boy, Ben Helwig was blinded in an accident while playing baseball. He eventually acquired a guide dog and now works in a defense plant.

A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some important issues.

Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and imprisoned with her son in a prison camp run by the enigmatic Colonel Suga.

2차 세계 대전 이후, 참전 군인이었던 보이드는 한 가정의 가장으로 사랑스러운 아내와 아이들을 위해 버스기사를 하며 평범하게 살아간다. 하지만 그는 연기가 아닌 다른 일에 도저히 흥미를 붙이지 못하고 힘들어하는데 그러던 어느 날, 지루한 일상에 질린 그는 은행털이범이 되기로 결심을 한다. 얼굴에 화려한 분장을 하고 마치 무대 위에 오르는 배우처럼 은행을 전전하며 수려한 말솜씨로 은행을 터는 그는 어느 순간부터 단순 은행털이범에서 무장강도로 점차 변하기 시작한다. 감옥에서 만난 몇몇 무리들과 갱을 조직한 에드윈 보이드. 끝끝내 잡히지 않을 것 같던 보이드 갱을 노리는 경찰의 포위망은 계속 좁혀오고 그의 영화 같은 인생은 점차 수렁에 빠지게 된다.

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are stopped by narrator Pete Smith for the purpose of showing the audience how much wood and wood by-products the average person carries.

A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

A WW-II defense plant worker gets knocked out and dreams about helping the war effort in various ways, including solving a crime.

In this WW II musical, a group of lovely college co-eds, realizing that there is a shortage of single young men, decide to begin rationing their dates so that all of them can have some fun. This is beneficial for the campus wimp who suddenly finds himself the hottest property on campus.

This early public information film puts out an appeal for more women to take up munitions work - showing training centres, opportunities for work in the aircraft industry as well as the tempting prospect of a fun social life. (source: British Film Institute)

Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over thirty and with a limp, is resigned to being left on the shelf until she meets and falls in love with Norman, a serviceman from London. In contrast, her younger sister Joyce has quite a way with men, and finds herself a little too popular with the troops, especially when her husband pops up on leave from his regiment.