Cedar Rapids Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Five Came Back and Hollywood War Bonds Director Pact

Mark Harris surveys John Ford Frank Capra William Wyler John Huston and George Stevens who left Hollywood for wartime service to produce propaganda and training films Their wartime work shaped postwar cinema and public memory providing crucial Midway Normandy and Dachau footage that informed later films and public perception The era of Hollywood ties with Washington cooled after the war.