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This week's RKO 1944 episode brings a Hollywood slant to an English working-class perspective on the war. In her only first-billed feature film role, in Passport to Destiny, Elsa Lanchester plays an indomitable charwoman who embarks upon a self-appointed mission to assassinate Hitler after coming to believe that she's magically protected, while in\xa0None But the Lonely Heart, American playwright Clifford Odets' directorial debut, Cary Grant plays a Cockney dreamer who struggles with the reality of lower-class life during the Depression after trying to settle down and take care of his dying mother. We discuss the similarity in style and subject matter between\xa0None But the Lonely Heart\xa0and the poetic realist films of 1930s French cinema, and the curiosity of this underrated art movie being made by RKO so soon after its infamous entanglement with Orson Welles' similarly grim and poetic\xa0Magnificent Ambersons. If you've ever wanted to hear Dave start crying by recounting a crying scene, this is your chance.\xa0

Time Codes:

0h 00m 45s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 RKO in 1944

0h 05m 12s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 PASSPORT TO DESTINY [dir. Ray McCarey]

0h 19m 22s:\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0\xa0 NONE BUT THE LONELY HEART [dir. Clifford Odets]

Studio Film Capsules provided by The RKO Story by Richard B. Jewell & Vernon Harbin

Additional studio information from: The Hollywood Story by Joel W. Finler

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