So off topic it'snot a topic -- but you are one on this list that might know the answer.
A long time ago I saw on television part of a film made probably in 1945 or 1946. The part I saw was all set on a train. Soldiers demobbed after the war are going home. On the train they meet a young woman who is heading up or working for some government agency or board (I think) and she and the soldiers have a remarkable running conversation about the world that is going to be built now that the war's over. The GIs are skeptical and joky, and the woman is cool and quick-witted, and the world she envisions is sort of corporate/socialist/empathic, not like anything I'd heard described in a film. The conversation was real conversation. The GIs are headed to get jobs and join the new world but they see it as mostly freedom and fun: she sees it as hard work toward good goals.
I am convinced that Clark Gable was one of the soldiers, but no Gable film matches the story. Maybe it was Dan O'Herlihy or somebody. It WASN"T "Best Years of our Lives."
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2009-04-23 12:16 am (UTC)A long time ago I saw on television part of a film made probably in 1945 or 1946. The part I saw was all set on a train. Soldiers demobbed after the war are going home. On the train they meet a young woman who is heading up or working for some government agency or board (I think) and she and the soldiers have a remarkable running conversation about the world that is going to be built now that the war's over. The GIs are skeptical and joky, and the woman is cool and quick-witted, and the world she envisions is sort of corporate/socialist/empathic, not like anything I'd heard described in a film. The conversation was real conversation. The GIs are headed to get jobs and join the new world but they see it as mostly freedom and fun: she sees it as hard work toward good goals.
I am convinced that Clark Gable was one of the soldiers, but no Gable film matches the story. Maybe it was Dan O'Herlihy or somebody. It WASN"T "Best Years of our Lives."
ANy thoughts?