sentences:  William Cagney, one of the film's producers, is reported to have said to his brother that "we're going to have to make the goddamndest patriotic picture that's ever been made.I think it's the Cohan story".The film nearly doubled the earnings of "Captains of the Clouds" (1942), Cagney's previous effort, bringing in more than $6 million in rentals to Warner Bros.