‘Days of Glory’: A Propaganda War Hero

Jacques Tourneur directs a war film meant to soften the ideology of a WWII ally.

Vladimir (Gregory Peck) and Sasha (Alan Reed) talk, in “Days of Glory.” RKO Radio Pictures

NR | 1h 26m | Drama, Romance, War | 1944

During World War II, Soviet Russia might be wrapped in heroic terms for American moviegoers. A few years later, the same hammer-and-sickle world became the looming enemy in American classrooms, speeches, spy thrillers, and living-room arguments.