City Without Men (1943) on Netflix
Tom Adams is convicted of aiding two Japanese men he took aboard at sea. To clear him, Nancy Johnson moves into Maria Barton's boardinghouse, where the inmates' wives live.
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Plot summary
Tom Adams spots two Japanese men climbing from an English ship into a rowboat and orders them aboard his speedboat. The Coast Guard does not believe his account and charges him with aiding and abetting them, and a court convicts him and gives him five years. Nancy Johnson sets out to clear him. She asks a judge to put the case to his brother, who heads the parole board, takes a job at the local laundry, and finds a room at Maria Barton's boardinghouse, where the other women are the wives of prisoners. Among them are Gwen, Winnie and Billie LaRue.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about City Without Men (1943)
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- Before City Without Men was made, actor Jon Hall was set to star as its male lead and Jean Arthur was considered as his female co-star, after Samuel Goldwyn Productions bought the story by Albert Bein and Aben Kandel in 1939.
- Glenda Farrell took the role of Billie LaRue in City Without Men after Claire Trevor, who had been cast first, was replaced.
- Columbia Pictures, which owned City Without Men, held talks with actors Alan Marshal and Phillip Terry to play the film's male lead.
