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M Millions Like Us (1943)
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Millions Like Us (1943)

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Country: GB
Technical: bw 103m
Director: Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat
Cast: Patricia Roc, Anne Crawford, Moore Marriott, Gordon Jackson, Eric Portman, Megs Jenkins, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne

Synopsis:

The Home Front during WW2: two very different girls have two very different love experiences during their time at an aircraft component factory.

Review:

This morale-boosting picture from Gainsborough may be rudely put together but it has a sincerity and sense of 'the way we were' that some propaganda films lacked. That is largely down to the open-faced Miss Roc, who would soon be one of the studios major assets, but the dances, blackouts, public houses, air raids, benefit concerts and the sing-along fighting spirit all have a documentary matter-of-factness about them. What's more, because it is a Launder and Gilliat* script, it has a cheeky sense of humour. Charters and Caldicott make three welcome appearances, but this is a film whose heart is with those who rolled up their sleeves, whatever their background. *Apparently it was the only collaboration for which they shared director credit.

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Country: GB
Technical: bw 103m
Director: Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat
Cast: Patricia Roc, Anne Crawford, Moore Marriott, Gordon Jackson, Eric Portman, Megs Jenkins, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne

Synopsis:

The Home Front during WW2: two very different girls have two very different love experiences during their time at an aircraft component factory.

Review:

This morale-boosting picture from Gainsborough may be rudely put together but it has a sincerity and sense of 'the way we were' that some propaganda films lacked. That is largely down to the open-faced Miss Roc, who would soon be one of the studios major assets, but the dances, blackouts, public houses, air raids, benefit concerts and the sing-along fighting spirit all have a documentary matter-of-factness about them. What's more, because it is a Launder and Gilliat* script, it has a cheeky sense of humour. Charters and Caldicott make three welcome appearances, but this is a film whose heart is with those who rolled up their sleeves, whatever their background. *Apparently it was the only collaboration for which they shared director credit.


Country: GB
Technical: bw 103m
Director: Frank Launder, Sidney Gilliat
Cast: Patricia Roc, Anne Crawford, Moore Marriott, Gordon Jackson, Eric Portman, Megs Jenkins, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne

Synopsis:

The Home Front during WW2: two very different girls have two very different love experiences during their time at an aircraft component factory.

Review:

This morale-boosting picture from Gainsborough may be rudely put together but it has a sincerity and sense of 'the way we were' that some propaganda films lacked. That is largely down to the open-faced Miss Roc, who would soon be one of the studios major assets, but the dances, blackouts, public houses, air raids, benefit concerts and the sing-along fighting spirit all have a documentary matter-of-factness about them. What's more, because it is a Launder and Gilliat* script, it has a cheeky sense of humour. Charters and Caldicott make three welcome appearances, but this is a film whose heart is with those who rolled up their sleeves, whatever their background. *Apparently it was the only collaboration for which they shared director credit.

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