DRAMA . 1938 . 1h 32m . 5.8/10

White Banners_

Name: White Banners
Genre: Drama
Released: 1938-06-23
Duration: 92 min
Rating: 5.8

"From a woman's love-scarred heart to the heart of all America...comes this startling secret of happiness!"

A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and housekeeper and stays with the Wards... but her real interest is in meeting their neighbor, teenager Peter Trimble. It turns out that Peter is the son she bore out of wedlock and gave up for adoption, and now Hannah has returned to town to see what sort of young man her son has become.

Starring Claude Rains, Fay Bainter, Jackie Cooper

5.8/10

Rating

1h 32m

Runtime

1938

Year

Updated Feb 16, 2026

From a woman's love-scarred heart to the heart of all America...comes this startling secret of happiness!

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Cast

Claude Rains stars as Paul Ward in White Banners.

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Year context

White Banners was released 88 years ago in 1938.

Overview

A homeless woman named Hannah drifts into the lives of the kindly Ward family, in a small Indiana town in 1919. Hannah makes herself useful as a cook and hou...

White Banners is a Drama film with a runtime of 1h 32m.