Walter Pidgeon of his better known roles was in "The Dark Command", where he portrayed the villain (loosely based on American Civil War guerrilla William C. Quantrill) opposite John Wayne, Claire Trevor, and a young Roy Rogers. It was not until he starred in the Academy Award-winning Best Picture "How Green Was My Valley" (1941) that his popularity returned. He then starred opposite Greer Garson in "Blossoms in the Dust" (1941), "Mrs. Miniver" (1942) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor) and its sequel, "The Miniver Story" in 1950. He was also nominated in 1944 for "Madame
Salute John Citizen of the wartime "home front."...in its own quiet, unassuming war, "Salute John Citizen" paints a truer portrait of a proud populace besieged by war than the more celebrated "Mrs. Miniver" "; and "TV Guide" noted "a nice little film--a simple telling of a modest family's attempts to cope with ongoing conflict" while in his book "Typical Men: The Representation of Masculinity in Popular British Cinema", Andrew Spicer concluded that the films "popularity was limited by its obviously frugal budget, and uncharismatic central star." Salute John Citizen Salute John Citizen is a 1942 black and white British drama film directed by