White Banners (1938)
1h 32m
Running Time
June 23, 1938Release Date
White Banners (1938)
1h 32m
Running Time
June 23, 1938Release Date
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Plot.
A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.
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Cast & Crew.
Claude Rains
Prof. Paul Ward
Fay Bainter
Hannah
Jackie Cooper
Peter Trimble
Henry O'Neill
Sam Trimble
Bonita Granville
Sally Ward
Kay Johnson
Marcia Ward
Edmund Goulding
Director
James Stephenson
Thomas Bradford
Media.
Details.
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Wiki.
White Banners is a 1938 Warner Bros. drama film directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville, Henry O'Neill, and Kay Johnson.
Produced by Henry Blanke and Hal B. Wallis, the screenplay was adapted by Lenore J. Coffee, Abem Finkel and Cameron Rogers from the 1936 novel of the same title by Lloyd C. Douglas.