Reaching for the Sun

Reaching for the Sun

90 mins | Drama, Comedy | May 1, 1941

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

Reaching for the Sun

90 mins | Drama, Comedy | May 1, 1941

Reaching for the Sun
Comedy of a North Woods clam-digger who journeys to Detroit to earn money for outboard motor by working on auto assembly line.
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers Paramount
Original title Reaching for the Sun
Directors William A. Wellman
Writers Wessel Smitter, W. L. River

Cast

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

Michael Duggan

as Little Benny Eliot

Warren Hymer

as Percy Shelley