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W Went the Day Well? (1942)
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Went the Day Well? (1942)

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Country: GB
Technical: bw 92m
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Cast: Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allan, Frank Lawton, Mervyn Johns, David Farrar

Synopsis:

A Nazi fifth column dressed as Tommies infiltrates and takes over an English rural community in advance of a putative invasion but, after repeatedly frustrated attempts to contact the outside world, the villagers fight back.

Review:

Tremendous propaganda piece, full of colourful stereotypes and cheerful absurdities. The violence, when it comes, is served up with relish, all presumably being fair in love and war, even in the movies. Interesting to compare it with The Eagle Has Landed, which offered a far more nuanced portrait of our foe.

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Country: GB
Technical: bw 92m
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Cast: Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allan, Frank Lawton, Mervyn Johns, David Farrar

Synopsis:

A Nazi fifth column dressed as Tommies infiltrates and takes over an English rural community in advance of a putative invasion but, after repeatedly frustrated attempts to contact the outside world, the villagers fight back.

Review:

Tremendous propaganda piece, full of colourful stereotypes and cheerful absurdities. The violence, when it comes, is served up with relish, all presumably being fair in love and war, even in the movies. Interesting to compare it with The Eagle Has Landed, which offered a far more nuanced portrait of our foe.


Country: GB
Technical: bw 92m
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Cast: Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allan, Frank Lawton, Mervyn Johns, David Farrar

Synopsis:

A Nazi fifth column dressed as Tommies infiltrates and takes over an English rural community in advance of a putative invasion but, after repeatedly frustrated attempts to contact the outside world, the villagers fight back.

Review:

Tremendous propaganda piece, full of colourful stereotypes and cheerful absurdities. The violence, when it comes, is served up with relish, all presumably being fair in love and war, even in the movies. Interesting to compare it with The Eagle Has Landed, which offered a far more nuanced portrait of our foe.

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