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Reaching for the Sun

Reaching for the Sun1941

★7.390 minComedyDrama

Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.

Director

William A. Wellman

Writer

Stars

Joel McCrea Ellen Drew Eddie Bracken

Cast15

Joel McCrea
as Russ Eliot
Ellen Drew
as Rita
Eddie Bracken
as Benny Hogan
Albert Dekker
as Herman
Billy Gilbert
as Amos
George Chandler
as Jerry
Bodil Rosing
as Rita's Mother
James Burke
as Norm
Nella Walker
as Nurse
Eily Malyon
as Landlady
Hobart Cavanaugh
as Front Office Man
Regis Toomey
as Intern
Charles D. Brown
as Johnson
M
Michael Duggan
as Little Benny Eliot
Warren Hymer
as Percy Shelley

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