Reaching for the Sun

1941Movie⏱️ 1h 30mApproved

DramaRomance

⭐ 6.6

IMDB Rating

112 votes

A backwoodsman comes to Detroit to get a job and earn money to buy an outboard motor.

Director

William A. Wellman

Writers

W.L. River, Wessel Smitter

Stars

Joel McCrea, Ellen Drew, Eddie Bracken

Release Date

May 2, 1941

Language

English

Country

United States

💬 5

Reviews

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🎭 Top 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

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Charles D. Brown

as Johnson

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Michael Duggan

as Little Benny Eliot

🎬 Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio

1.37 : 1

Color

Black and White

Filming Location

Packard Motor Car Company, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Production

Paramount Pictures

🏷️ Keywords

1930sinventorambitionlabor unionautomobile factory

🎯 Categories

DramaRomance

⭐ Featured Review

You can take the boy out of the country...

by planktonrules • 2019-01-29

6/10

"I noticed that one of the reviews complained about the quality of the print on the DVD for this film. I saw it on YouTube instead...and the print was also pretty poor as well. Not sure if there's a better copy out there somewhere. Russ (Joel McCrea) is a man of simple wants and needs. He works part of the year as a lumberman and the rest of the time he digs clams for a living. However, when he is told that the auto assembly plant in the big city pays great wages, he goes there to earn the money to buy an outboard motor for his clam-digging boat. But his new buddy Benny (Eddie Bracken) wa..."

💡 Did You Know?

One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; its earliest documented telecasts took place in Charlotte NC Sunday 30 August 1959 on WSOC (Channel 9) and in Seattle Friday 18 September 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7).