Joe Smith, American (1942)

Directors

Richard Thorpe

Cast

Darryl Hickman, Don Costello, Harvey Stephens, Jonathan Hale, Joseph Anthony, Marsha Hunt, Noel Madison, Robert Young, Russell Hicks, William Forrest, William Tannen

The story

In 1942, Joe Smith is a "buck an hour" crew chief on the Lockheed P-38 Lightning assembly line in a Los Angeles defense plant. When plant president Mr. Edgerton and his supervisor Blake McKettrick call him into his office, Joe is grilled by two men from Washington, Freddie Dunhill and Gus, who later ask him to draw from memory a blueprint put in front of him.

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