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Category: Thriller
All Genres: Thriller, War
Release Year: 1942
Country: UK
Runtime: 92
Rating: 8.3 (0)
Languages: English, German
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Sound: Mono
Taglines:A picture that swings from hilarity to heart-break and back again! It speaks to you in the language of love, laughter and tears !...
Writing by: John Dighton - writer
Graham Greene - short story "The Lieutenant Died Last"
Angus MacPhail - writer
Diana Morgan - writer
Produced by: Michael Balcon - producer
S.C. Balcon - associate producer
Cast: Leslie Banks - Oliver Wilsford
C.V. France - The Vicar
Valerie Taylor - Nora Ashton
Marie Lohr - Mrs Fraser
Basil Sydney - Kommandant Orlter, alias Major Hammond
David Farrar - Lt. Jung, alias Lt. Maxwell
Harry Fowler - George Truscott, boy
Frank Lawton - Tom Sturry
Edward Rigby - Bill Purvis, the poacher
Elizabeth Allan - Peggy Pryde, [a Land Army Girl]
Thora Hird - Ivy Dawking, [a Land Army Girl]
Music: William Walton
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: An English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion.
Plot: The residents of a British village during WWII welcome a platoon of soldiers who are to be billeted with them. The trusting residents then discover that the soldiers are Germans who proceed to hold the village captive.
Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
"Went the Day Well? We died and never knew. But, well or ill, freedom, we died for you."
Goofs: We know about 7 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: Two characters are sitting in an office. Items on a bookcase (behind a chair) keep appearing and disappearing.
Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list - like these:
All Genres: Thriller, War
Release Year: 1942
Country: UK
Runtime: 92
Rating: 8.3 (0)
Languages: English, German
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Sound: Mono
Taglines:
Writing by: John Dighton - writer
Graham Greene - short story "The Lieutenant Died Last"
Angus MacPhail - writer
Diana Morgan - writer
Produced by: Michael Balcon - producer
S.C. Balcon - associate producer
Cast: Leslie Banks - Oliver Wilsford
C.V. France - The Vicar
Valerie Taylor - Nora Ashton
Marie Lohr - Mrs Fraser
Basil Sydney - Kommandant Orlter, alias Major Hammond
David Farrar - Lt. Jung, alias Lt. Maxwell
Harry Fowler - George Truscott, boy
Frank Lawton - Tom Sturry
Edward Rigby - Bill Purvis, the poacher
Elizabeth Allan - Peggy Pryde, [a Land Army Girl]
Thora Hird - Ivy Dawking, [a Land Army Girl]
Music: William Walton
Official Website: Visit Website
Plot Outline: An English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion.
Plot: The residents of a British village during WWII welcome a platoon of soldiers who are to be billeted with them. The trusting residents then discover that the soldiers are Germans who proceed to hold the village captive.
Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
"Went the Day Well? We died and never knew. But, well or ill, freedom, we died for you."
Goofs: We know about 7 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: Two characters are sitting in an office. Items on a bookcase (behind a chair) keep appearing and disappearing.
Trivia: There are 3 entries in the trivia list - like these:
- When the man running the pub in the village where the film was being shot discovered that he had used up his alcohol ration on the film crew, he was so distraught he committed suicide.
- Alberto Cavalcanti was paid ?45 a week while making the film.
- Basil Sydney refused to re-record some dialogue, saying that he was a member of a religious sect whose members were forbidden to look upon their own image.
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