Souvenirs of Death

Jun 19, 1948

0h 10m

★ 6.5

Overview

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of how a Mauser pistol used on the battlefield by Germans during WWII makes its way into the hands of an American gangster.

Genres

Drama

History

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Loew's

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Cast

Narrator - Voice of the Gun (voice)

John Nesbitt

Gangster (uncredited)

Morris Ankrum

Johnny's Mother (uncredited)

Barbara Billingsley

Johnny's Father (uncredited)

Don Castle

Gambler (uncredited)

Mahlon Hamilton

Johnny (uncredited)

Jimmy Hunt

Gun Shop Proprietor (uncredited)

Mitchell Lewis

Bouncer at Gambling House (uncredited)

Gil Perkins

Murdered Policeman (uncredited)

Brick Sullivan

Little Boy Who Shoots Rusty (uncredited)

Tony Taylor

Two beautiful and different girls, Alice and Lisette are 17 years old, when forcibly removed from their Alsatian family to cooperate in the war effort in Germany. After spending six months in a indoctrination camp, they are both sent to a munitions factory where they are tasked to perform inhuman works. An explosion erupts, they are suspected of sabotage and threatened with being sent to a boot camp. Alice and Lisette believe they saved when transferred to a maternity where they continue living the hell of war.

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