The Mortal Storm (1940)

My third of the four James Stewart – Margaret Sullavan pairings, this one has them again joined by Frank Morgan. I generally enjoy World War II films from the era before the United States entered the war, if anything to try to figure out what took us so long, but this one didn’t really pull me in. It all felt a bit too American as if it wasn’t just filmed in Utah and Idaho but also set there, barring the swastikas everywhere. The movie feels a bit like propaganda pushing how awful the Nazis are for picking on our heroes, though they did manage to get both Roberts Stack and Young on their side, but it did manage to piss off Hitler and the chemistry between Stewart and Sullavan is beautiful so there are wins there. Sad that this is their last movie together, though I still have one more to watch and annual Christmas viewings of The Shop Around the Corner.