Air Raid Wardens Page #2

Synopsis: Turned down when they try to enlist, the boys do the next best thing and become air raid wardens. They uncover and foil a Nazi plot to sabotage a magnesium plant.
Genre: Comedy
Director(s): Edward Sedgwick
Production: MGM
 
IMDB:
6.2
PASSED
Year:
1943
67 min
42 Views


What are you

supposed to be doing, anyway?

We're putting up bills, you see,

for the gym...

- Oh, the idea.

- Excuse me. Maybe I can help your dress.

Thank you! Good day!

We're all here

because we want to be here.

We're here as volunteers...

...as men and women who come

of our own free wills...

...to do what we can

to protect the things we all hold dear.

The new magnesium plant

being built here at the edge of town...

...goes into operation

in the next two months...

...supplying a vital war product.

Now, the enemy

will wanna stop this supply.

This makes Huxton a defense area...

...just the same as if we were

on the fighting front.

And we've gotta protect not only the plant,

but the homes and lives of its workers.

Now, the first thing we have to do

is get organized.

So I would now like to announce

the appointments...

...of the heads of our various units.

First, as Chief of the

Air Raid Warden Service, Captain Biddle.

Will you come on?

We're 20 minutes late now.

You can't take that dog in here.

I didn't ask him to come in.

I just gave him a piece of popcorn.

- That was all...

- Well, put that stuff away. Go on, dog.

- Go on. Get out. Go home.

- You can't come in here, see?

- I'll see you when we come out.

- Yeah.

- Go on home.

- Go get it, now. Go get it.

As leader of the Women's Auxiliary...

...I appoint Mrs. J.P. Norton.

Thank you.

My friends, thank you.

I shall devote myself to the trust

that you all have placed in me.

I am now serving as president

of the Women's Club...

...and have many social duties

as wife of the city's leading banker.

- Take your shoes off.

- However, this new work is important too.

I can't. I got a hole in my sock.

Take them off.

And I shall try to knit

a well-formed organization.

Thus, I bring to the task

not only my enthusiasm...

...but my experience in leadership.

For leadership, as I've often told our ladies,

is all-important.

With strong leaders, we succeed.

With weak leaders, we fail.

I can assure you that, under my leadership,

the ladies of Huxton will succeed.

As I was saying...

...there is one pitfall

which we ladies must avoid.

We must be sure that we choose

the right people for the right jobs.

- It's my rheumatism.

- Just as Mr. Madison...

...has exercised great care

in the selection of his coworkers...

...so must I pick my assistants.

Each of our activities

must be headed by a lady...

...who will imbue her workers

with a spirit of self-sacrifice.

Only in this way...

...can our organization

become a credit to our fair city.

We must have...

As I was saying...

About...

About my coworkers,

the very first thing I shall do tomorrow...

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Martin Rackin

Martin Rackin (31 July 1918 – 15 April 1976) was an American writer and producer who was briefly head of production at Paramount Pictures from 1960-64. In the late 1950s he wrote and produced a series of films with actor Alan Ladd.Rackin was born in New York City. He worked as an errand boy for a Times Square hat shop. He became a reporter for the New York Daily Mirror and was a feature writer for two news services. He also worked as a speech writer and in publicity.Rackin wrote a book, Buy Me That Town. Film rights to this were bought by Sol Siegel and Rackin moved to Hollywood. He served in the air force during World War II. In the 1950s, he was head of film production for NBC.Richard Fleischer described Rakin as "a real character. He was a fast-talking, breezy, nervous, con man type who blinked his eyes a lot. You always had the feeling that he was some sort of a street corner shell game operator keeping an eye open for the cops." more…

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