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Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
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Carla Lehmann
- Helen Barrington
- (as Carla Lehman)
Gerald Case
- Squadron Leader Weston
- (uncredited)
Noel Dainton
- Member of Home Guard
- (uncredited)
Annie Esmond
- Lady Wrapping Parcels For The Bazaar
- (uncredited)
Peter Gawthorne
- Senior RAF Officer
- (uncredited)
Arthur Hambling
- Scotland Yard Inspector
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaTheatrical movie debut of George Cole (Ronald).
- GoofsDespite being apparently unconscious, the downed parachutist can be seen helping the two boatmen pull him into the rowing boat at the start of the film.
- Quotes
Helen Barrington: You know, George, I think you waste your time with the wrong sort of women.
Flt·Lieut. George Perry: I never waste my time with any women.
Helen Barrington: I quite believe that.
- SoundtracksOverture
(uncredited)
from "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"
Music by Richard Wagner
Arranged by Louis Levy
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Enjoyable wartime 'thriller' which could only have been made in Britain
An enjoyable piece of British wartime entertainment, probably to be appreciated more now than by audiences at the time, (who would have found it very 'stagey' and lacking in action, I suspect). The plot is nothing in particular and its stage origins are all too apparent in the set locations, which cover the cottage of the title acting as a lodging house, home for evacuated children from London and a military hospital (????) whilst, up at 'the Big House', there is a 'top-secret' research laboratory, (which you know is 'top secret' as one of the (numerous) doors has a sliding panel in it),(but which actually seems to have more people entering and leaving it in the course of the film than the lounge of the 'Dog and Duck'), country gentry residence and garden fête venue. The real strength of the film, though, is its very strong cast. Leslie Banks is quite watchable on as the lead and John Mills is his usual, (for the period), photogenic, brylcreemed RAF fighter pilot hero, (or IS he?), who delivers in the usual sound manner. George Cole makes his first film appearance as one of two Cockney scamps evacuated to the 'cottage', (although the other one disappears from view entirely after the first five minutes!), and one can already see him mentally in a mini-sheepskin coat and with a cigarillo in hand as he begins his apprenticeship for greater glories to come in his career. Alastair Sim is, as usual, extremely good value for money and always watchable. The REAL star, though, I thought, was Jeanne De Casalis as the dotty 'Lady of the Manor', showing marvellous comic timing, interacting with all the rest of the cast flawlessly, (catch her expression when the little girl who has just handed her a bouquet of flowers at the opening of the fête wants it back!), and having me in stitches with her spoonerisms, ("Are you the lad with the manor? I'm sorry, I meant the man with the ladder?"), and, above all, her speech opening the fête; ("In the words of our dear Prime Minister, never was so much owed by so few to so many"). Somehow, one just cannot see film-makers of the time doing the same to speeches of their leader in the Kremlin! I shall certainly watch out for any other films starring this lady.
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- csrothwec
- Jul 1, 2008
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- Also known as
- Cottage to Let
- Filming locations
- Gaumont-British Studios, Lime Grove, Shepherd's Bush, London, England, UK(studio: made at the Gaumont-British Studios, London)
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- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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