Anticipating Arthur Miller's postwar 'All My Sons' by five years, this slick wartime propaganda quickie made early in the war when Pearl Harbor was just a girl's name goes to pains to remind us of the consequences to the war effort of cutting corners when supplying essential parts.
Former bootlegger Ricardo Cortez was exaggerating how many people had cars even in America when he says "Everybody didn't drink, but everybody drives". (Nearly eighty years later I still know far more people who drink than own cars.) But even pedestrians have to use public transport; and if there's money in it, racketeers like Cortez will move in.
A young, stylishly suited Rochelle Hudson plays gangster Cortez's moll, while a boyish-looking Alan Hale Jr. really was junior in those days.
Former bootlegger Ricardo Cortez was exaggerating how many people had cars even in America when he says "Everybody didn't drink, but everybody drives". (Nearly eighty years later I still know far more people who drink than own cars.) But even pedestrians have to use public transport; and if there's money in it, racketeers like Cortez will move in.
A young, stylishly suited Rochelle Hudson plays gangster Cortez's moll, while a boyish-looking Alan Hale Jr. really was junior in those days.