Reward Unlimited (1944)

Directed by

Jacques Tourneur

Genre

drama

Country

United States

Runtime

10 min

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A 10-minute short made for the U.S. Public Health Service during World War II. It follows a young woman named Peggy Adams who decides to become a nurse, goes through training, and eventually volunteers for military nursing service.

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What happens

Reward Unlimited is a short film produced in 1944 by David O. Selznick's Vanguard Films, for the United States Public Health Service, dramatizing the need for volunteer military nurses for the U. S. Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II. Directed by Jacques Tourneur, the 10-minute film stars Dorothy McGuire in one of her first films. The story by Mary C. McCall, Jr., dramatizes the choice that young Peggy Adams makes to become a nurse, her training, and her volunteering for military nursing service. The cast includes Aline MacMahon, James Brown, Spring Byington and Tom Tully. Reward Unlimited was released May 18, 1944. Distributed by the United States Office of War Information, the film was exhibited in 16,000 theaters and seen by an estimated 90 million people. It was also presented at Cadet Nurse Corps recruitment events nationwide in 1944 and 1945. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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