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Reviewer:Film Fan - - July 21, 2007 Subject: Pledging "To Each Other" Legendary, oscar-winning character actor Walter Brennan ("The Real McCoys," "Sergeant York") plays a 49-year old steel worker who pledges to support victory for his son fighting on the battlefield by producing plenty of steel back home for the war effort. The film shows how he and U.S. Steel are "doing their part" to supply soldiers with the tools they need to fight--all made from steel.
The film is Capra-esque in style and sometimes it seems that Walter is going to break into a reading of "Old Rivers." But, despite its being a promotional film for U.S. Steel, it displays the sacrifice and commitment that made the WWII generation, "The Greatest Generation."
Reviewer:Spuzz - - February 14, 2005 Subject: They're coming to take me away Ha Ha! After wandering into a set that looks, I swear, exactly like the one Gordon Macrae woos Shirley Jones in 'Carousel', an old coot (loudly) reads a letter he got from his son overseas fighting da war. The son writes about the Steel plant that he works at (his father still does) and wonders what is happening now. The father THEN starts talking aloud, to the camera, as if we were his 'son' and talking about the many advancements of steel production. All the steel footage is quite great, as usual, comeing from USS. But the way it's cornerstoned into this huge melodrama sure is strange (You think by the way the father was talking that the son had died or something). A curio here.