Know Your Ally: Britain (1944)

Know Your Ally: Britain

1944

War Documentary

Synopsis

Know Your Ally: Britain was a 45-minute propaganda film made in 1944. It was narrated by Walter Huston and produced by the United States War Department and Signal Corp to solidify Anglo-American solidarity within the ranks as well as counter Nazi propaganda aimed at weakening the Alliance.

Credits

Director

Robert Stevenson

Cast

Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage)

Benito Mussolini as Self (archive footage)

Ernest Bevin as Self (archive footage)

Franklin D. Roosevelt as Self (archive footage)

Herbert Morrison as Self (archive footage)

Louis Mountbatten as Self (archive footage)

Orson Welles as Narrator/Bob (helpful taxi passenger)

Walter Huston as Narrator