Ring of Steel
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| Ring of Steel | |
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| Directed by | Garson Kanin |
| Written by | Wallace Russell |
| Narrated by | Spencer Tracy |
| Release date(s) | 1941-42 |
| Running time | Short: 10 min. |
| Country | U.S.A. |
| Language | English |
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Ring of Steel was an Army recruiting film releaseed sometime in the early 1940s and narrated by Spencer Tracy. The exact date of the film is not certain: Internet Archive.org say 1941, which would explain the lack of any explicit mention of World War II, wereas the Internet Movie Database gives its release date of April 7, 1942.
The film uses stock footage with Spencers over voice to narrate the story of Americas military history from the perspective of the personification of the American soldier. It starts with Lexington and concord "Where I was born" through the First World War, listing the US militarys achivement and urging young men to sign up.
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