The North Star (1943)
Director: Lewis Milestone
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Heroic Russian villagers fight off Nazi invaders in this hokey pro-Soviet flag-waver, which was later to embarrass the Goldwyn studio and just about everybody who'd worked on it, when McCarthy's commie-hunting investigators started prying. Lillian Hellman adapted the dire screenplay from her own book - and, yes, that is Walter Brennan as a Russky.Author:
Cast & crew
Director: Lewis Milestone
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Cast: Anne Baxter, Dana Andrews, Walter Huston, Ann Harding, Erich von Stroheim, Farley Granger, Walter Brennan, Dean Jagger full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 105 mins
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