Road to Victory (1944)

Original title

The Road to Victory

Directed by

LeRoy Prinz

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

10 min

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1944 short film features stars like Bing Crosby, Cary Grant, and Frank Sinatra performing songs to encourage Americans to buy war bonds. It is an edited version of another film released that same year.

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What happens

The Road to Victory is a 1944 short film from Warner Brothers notable for the appearance of Bing Crosby, a major singing and movie star, Cary Grant, a major actor in motion pictures, and Frank Sinatra, a young singer who would soon become a movie star himself. The short also featured Benny Goodman and Harry James. The movie was intended to promote the U.S. Fifth War Loan and was an edited and truncated re-release of The Shining Future from the same year. Sinatra sings "Hot Time in the Town of Berlin" and Crosby sings "The Road to Victory" (written by Frank Loesser). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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