USA
, 60 min
Shown in 1980
CREDITS
- dir
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Connie Field
- scr
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Connie Field
- cam
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Kathy Zheutlin, Bonnie Friedman
- prod co
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Clarity Educational Emeryville
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COMMENTS
Shown with The Willmar 8.
OTHER
A reexamination of the experiences of women war workers in America, during the 1940s. The women seen as they were then and looking back to a time of good-natured patriotism, forms a bittersweet statement about American attitudes and hypocritical doctrines. These were no tap-dancing girls swaying rhythmically at Lockheed as Hollywood imaged them, but earnest individuals who had their dreams of economic survival, who really did praise the Lord and pass the ammunition.
—Albert Johnson
FACTOID #361
John Huston, director of classics The Maltese Falcon and The Misfits, was honored with a Festival tribute in 1968. His daughter Anjelica received the Peter J. Owens Award in 1991; The Dead, one of the father-daughter duo’s collaborations, screened at her onstage interview.
