The North Star

During WW II, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt called upon Hollywood to pay tribute to America's valiant Russian allies, and Samuel Goldwyn Studios (of which Roosevelt's son James was then president) was the first to heed the call. Playwright Lillian Hellman was enlisted to write the script, Lewis Milestone directed, and gifted cinematographer James Wong Howe took care of the cameras for this story of a Ukrainian farm collective, the North Star, and the gallant reaction of its people (including Walter Huston, Anne Baxter, Farley Granger, and Dana Andrews) when the Germans invade. With the invaders' arrival, some of the villagers take to the hills to become guerr...