Gangway for Tomorrow

Nov 3, 1943

1h 9m

★ 6.1

Sensational Drama That X-rays the Secret Hearts of 5 "Ordinary" Men and Women!

Overview

Five defense workers on their way to the munitions factory tell their stories: a refugee from the French Resistance, a frustrated race car driver, a prison warden, a former Miss America, and an intellectual who dropped out of society and saw the country as a bum.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

RKO Radio Pictures

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Cast

Lisette Rene

Margo

Mr. Wellington

John Carradine

Joe Dunham

Robert Ryan

Mary Jones (Miss America)

Amelita Ward

Bob Nolan

William Terry

Fred Taylor

Harry Davenport

Tom Burke

James Bell

Jim Benson

Charles Arnt

Swallow

Alan Carney

Sam

Wally Brown

Dan Barton

Erford Gage

Col. Mueller

Richard Ryen

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