Identity Unknown (1945 film)

Identity Unknown is a 1945 American war film starring Richard Arlen and Cheryl Walker, and directed by Walter Colmes.

It is based on Le Voyageur sans bagage (Traveller Without Luggage), a 1937 play by French playwright Jean Anouilh.

On a hospital ship heading home, Major Williams, a doctor, talks to a soldier suffering from amnesia.

A young boy opens the door and throws his arms around him enthusiastically, believing he is his father, inspite of being told he would not return from the war.

The soldier's younger brother, Joe, is a ne’er-do-well, a cashier in a bookie joint who defrauded a local gangster out of $6000.

Johnny stops the auction, convincing the Andersons that the greatest way they could honor their son’s legacy would be to perpetuate the happy times they had together on the farm.

Sally calls from a nearby train station, and a jubilant Johnny borrows the Andersons’ pickup to meet her.

He had been flying over the farmhouse in France in an attempt to drop supplies to the beleaguered soldiers when the German dive bombers struck.