Millions Like Us (1943)

Review: Millions Like Us (1943)

Director: Sidney Gilliat

Cast: Patricia Roc, Gordon Jackson, Anne Crawford, Moore Marriott, Basil Radford,

Patricia Roc
Patricia Roc
Gordon Jackson
Gordon Jackson
Anne Crawford
Anne Crawford
Moore Marriott
Moore Marriott
Basil Radford
Basil Radford

Plot: Millions Like Us is a 1943 British propaganda film, showing life in a wartime aircraft factory in documentary detail. It stars Patricia Roc, Eric Portman, Megs Jenkins, and Anne Crawford, was written by Sidney Gilliat, and directed by Gilliat and Frank Launder. It was filmed at Gainsborough Studios. When Celia Crowson (Roc) is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life, and begins a relationship with a young airman.

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