Margaret O'Brien is practicing the Gettysburg Address for recital a school. Father Jimmy Cagney leaves her and mother Ann Sothern to perform his duties as an air raid warden. It's a clear night, and he is thankful there are no actual air raid in the United States, just practice. Tired, he falls asleep and dreams of his daughter in a bombed-out English home, as a Greek girl fleeing the soldiers, as a starving child in China, as a corpse in Lidice....
Carey Wilson's narration talks about the lucky nation of the United States, where the home front was actually safe -- unless you were in Honolulu or the Aleutians. I'm not sure how they got Cagney away from Warner Brothers for it, but perhaps director Mervyn Leroy pulled a few strings at his former studio. He was, after all, married to the boss's daughter.
Carey Wilson's narration talks about the lucky nation of the United States, where the home front was actually safe -- unless you were in Honolulu or the Aleutians. I'm not sure how they got Cagney away from Warner Brothers for it, but perhaps director Mervyn Leroy pulled a few strings at his former studio. He was, after all, married to the boss's daughter.
