Un nommé Joe

Original title: A Guy Named Joe

IMDb RATING

6.9/10

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Spencer Tracy and Irene Dunne in Un nommé Joe (1943)

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A dead World War II bomber pilot, Pete Sandidge becomes the guardian angel of another pilot, Ted Randall. He guides Ted through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite ... Read allA dead World War II bomber pilot, Pete Sandidge becomes the guardian angel of another pilot, Ted Randall. He guides Ted through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her excessive devotion to Sandidge's memory.A dead World War II bomber pilot, Pete Sandidge becomes the guardian angel of another pilot, Ted Randall. He guides Ted through battle and helping him to romance his old girlfriend, despite her excessive devotion to Sandidge's memory.

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IMDb RATING

6.9/10

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 3 wins & 3 nominations total

James J. Rourke
(as Don De Fore)

Charles Smith

Sanderson

Addison Richards

Maj. Corbett

Kirk Alyn

Officer in Heaven
(uncredited)

Bill Arthur

Cadet
(uncredited)

Martin Ashe

Sergeant in Chinese Restaurant
(uncredited)

George Atkinson

Waiter
(uncredited)

Irving Bacon

Cpl. Henderson
(uncredited)

Dora Baker

Charwoman
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Un nommé Joe (1943) was reportedly director Steven Spielberg's favorite and remade by him in 1989. Spielberg's film, entitled Always (1989), starred Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter and Brad Johnson in the principal roles, as the same Pete Sandich, Durinda Durston and Al Yackey. The characters of "Ted" and "Nails" were also included. The setting of that film was updated to the present and centered on the activities of forest fire-fighting pilots. Spielberg also included a clip from 'A Guy Named Joe' in his film Poltergeist (1982).

Goofs
Late in the movie Dorinda (Irene Dunne) is wearing the uniform of a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP), apparently still ferrying airplanes. However, WASPs never ferried planes to overseas locations, especially combat areas such as New Guinea, which is in the Southwest Pacific. Earlier in the movie she is in England; however, she was wearing a British uniform and women regularly ferried planes there and even encountered combat conditions.

Quotes
The General: No man is really dead unless he breaks faith with the future, and no man is really alive unless he accepts his responsibility to it.

Crazy credits
The film ends with the following written inscription: "To Families and Friends of Men and Women in Our Armed Forces. The picture you have just seen is being shown in combat areas overseas with the compliments of the American Motion Picture Industry."

Connections
Featured in MGM Parade: Episode #1.10 (1955)

Soundtracks
The Army Air Corps Song
(uncredited)
Written by Robert Crawford
Played during the opening credits and partially sung by an off-screen male chorus
Played as background music often and at the end

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Featured review

This is a touching story about love which knows no end.

This is one of the best love stories ever. It isn't a war story, war simply happens to be the setting. And I don't see how a movie can prevent nations from winning a war. The whole fact that Spencer Tracy's character loves Irene Dunne's so much that he will watch her marry another man is the most amazing testimony of love. I don't know how you can watch one of the final scenes; in which Tracy and Dunne are in the plane and he says that their love is too good to make her unhappy; and still call "A Guy Named Joe," a silly movie. Again, the war was simply a setting, because war in itself isn't very interesting, it is the human experience in war which creates a story.

The Fact that Spielberg enjoyed and admired it so much that he remade it also says a little for the film.