About this title: Millions Like Us is a fundamentally honest dramatization of the British "home front" during World War II. Patricia Roc plays a worker in a defense plant who lives in an all-female rooming house. Shy and sheltered, Roc loses some of her inhibitions when she falls in love with an airman (Gordon Jackson). After they marry, he is killed in battle. Roc's coworkers and friends rally round her, giving her the strength to persevere. Millions Like Us attempts to show the temporary breakdown of the British class structure during the war, with everyone--highborn to low--pitching in, working together, ...
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Description: Patricia Roc, Eric Portman, Gordon Jackson, Anne Crawford, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Moore Marriott, Terry Randall. New in new packaging. 1943 Run time: 103. One of the first joint efforts of British writing/directing team Sidney Gilliatt and Frank Launder, this realistic, unsentimental war drama remains one of their best as well. On the British home front, a shy woman working in a defense plant falls in love with and marries a pilot who is killed in battle. Produced by Edward Black. read more
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