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Joe Smith, American is a film of genre Drama directed by Richard Thorpe released in USA on 1 february 1942 with Robert Young
Joe Smith, American (1942)
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Actors
Robert Young
(Joe Smith)
Robert Young
(Joe Smith)
Don Costello
(Mead)
Marsha Hunt
(Mary Hewett Smith)
Harvey Stephens
(Freddie Dunhill)
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