The Fighting Generation (1944)

Directed by

Alfred Hitchcock

Genre

public service announcement

Country

United States

Runtime

4 min

Rated

NR

Rating

5.1 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A nurse's aide makes a direct appeal to viewers to buy war bonds. The short film was made as a public service announcement during World War Two.

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What happens

The Fighting Generation is a 1944 short film, a public service announcement produced by David O. Selznick and directed by an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock to promote war bond sales during the Sixth War Loan Drive. Jennifer Jones stars as a nurse's aide. The film was shot in a single day, on October 9, 1944. Rhonda Fleming and actors Steve Dunhill and Tony Devlin were to appear in the scene, according to a call sheet, but in the end, only Jones appears on-screen. The film survives in the Academy Film Archive and was preserved in 2008. The film is part of the Academy War Film Collection, one of the largest collections of World War II-era short films held outside government archives. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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