Plot SynopsisThe big-budget, sentimental soap opera portrayed a genteel, idealized Midwestern family left on the home front in 1943 during World War II.His blonde, young and vivacious American wife Katherine ""Katie"" (Jocelyn Brando, Marlon Brando""s sister) is clad in a checkered apron in their simple yet respectable, wood-paneled home of the 1950s." Its movement upward puzzles the fishes.The shell is rescued, picked up by a steamer, and towed to a French port.(The scientists are greeted in Paris by a general ovation/grand march of Marines and the French fire brigade for their happy return, including the retrieved rocket shell." Five telephone conversations were highlighted, introducing (directly or indirectly) the personas and circumstances of almost all of the major characters:Senf (Jean Hersholt), an emigre and the head porter at the Grand Hotel, nervously called a Berlin hospital inquiring about news of his wife""s imminent delivery of a baby, with the film""s first major lines of dialogue: "Hello, hello, hello.