Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.Aircraft workers during during World War II become involved in a love triangle.
Sonny Bupp
- Kid Playing Football
- (uncredited)
Ken Christy
- Inspector
- (uncredited)
Frank Coghlan Jr.
- Mail Boy with Telegram
- (uncredited)
Clancy Cooper
- Policeman at Restaurant
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaJack Carson replaced Ronald Reagan before filming began after Reagan was re-assigned to Desperate Journey (1942).
- GoofsWhen Jack Carson and Ann Sheridan are arguing in the kitchen about their shortage of food and money. Ann Sheridan says "If farmers and dimwits eat steak instead of beans I'm all for it." For the average person at this point in the war steak would be a distant memory, rationing was in full force and steak would have been an expensive rarity.
- Quotes
Corky 'Cork' Jones: Rooms around here are scarcer than three-legged ducks.
- Crazy creditsPrologue: To our airplane factory workers, whose magnificent efforts will enable the United Nations to preserve a free way of life, this motion picture is respectfully dedicated.
During 1940 and 1941, many far-sighted leaders urged us to prepare for the war that was inevitably approaching.
- SoundtracksYou're in the Army Now
(uncredited)
Music by Isham Jones and lyrics by Tell Taylor and Ole Olsen
Played by the band in the big crowd at Lockheed
Featured review
Limp propaganda, but the stars did have something
Mostly a documentary-style salute to the tireless workers at Lockheed and how quickly they're turning out aircraft for the war (which we're not in until the end of the movie), this Warners assembly line effort is unremarkable in pretty much every way. It stars Dennis Morgan and Jack Carson, who were teamed in several other movies, usually more felicitously, as sort of a Warners Hope and Crosby. They're old school buddies, and when Morgan makes it out to California to work, he bunks in with Carson and almost immediately is flirting with his wife, Ann Sheridan. The three yell at each other an awful lot, and you may notice, neither of the guys is a really good guy: Morgan's a lazy cynic and Carson a quick-tempered idiot. Both are eventually redeemed, of course. The comedy's limp and the romance unsatisfying, and the one really good performance comes out of George Tobias, of all people, who's the immigrant supervisor who makes wry remarks and eventually encounters tragedy. The patriotism is thick even by the standards of the day, and the musical score intrusive, and don't expect any surprises. But what he heck, I enjoy Morgan and Carson, and Sheridan did have oomph. A period piece, indifferently directed by Lloyd Bacon, but not too bad as a time waster.
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- The Shadow of Their Wings
- Filming locations
- MacArthur Park, Los Angeles, California, USA(Roma and Corky's date in a paddleboat - was Westlake Park until 1942)
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- Runtime1 hour 24 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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