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Stand By for Action

film by Leonard [1942]

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  • In Robert Z. Leonard: Later films

    …into the war genre with Stand By for Action (1942), a patriotic World War II yarn featuring Taylor as a U.S. Navy officer who avoids battle until he is transferred from his desk job to a destroyer. The Man from Down Under (1943) was a heartwarming comedy starring Charles Laughton,…

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