Unpublished Story (1942)

Director:

Harold French

Writers:

Anatole de Grunwald
Anthony Havelock-Allan (story)
(more)

Release Date:

10 August 1942 (UK)

Genre:

Drama | War

Plot:

Journalists investigate German fifth columnists as London burns in the blitz. |

Plot Keywords:

World War Two | Journalism

Cast

Richard Greene	...	Bob Randall
Valerie Hobson	...	Carol Bennett
Basil Radford	...	Lamb
Roland Culver	...	Stannard
Brefni O'Rorke	...	Denton
Miles Malleson	...	Farmfield
George Carney	...	Landlord
Muriel George	...	Landlady
André Morell	...	Marchand
Frederick Cooper	...	Trapes
George Thorpe	...	Major Edwards
Renee Gadd	...	Miss Hartley
Claude Bailey	...	George Roddington
Ronald Shiner	...	Agitator
Wally Patch	...	Taxi driver at Victoria Station
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Peter Cozens	...	(uncredited)
John Longden	...	Metcalf (uncredited)
Aubrey Mallalieu	...	Warden (uncredited)
Edie Martin	...	Mrs. Duncan (uncredited)
Henry Morrell	...	Wigmore (uncredited)
John Ojerholm	...	American newspaper man (uncredited)
Tony Quinn	...	Lance Corporal (uncredited)
Anthony Shaw	...	Mr. Hayter (uncredited)
John Slater	...	Code soldier (uncredited)
Townsend Whitling	...	(uncredited)
D.J. Williams	...	Mr. Robinson (uncredited)

Directed by
Harold French

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Anatole de Grunwald
Sidney Gilliat		uncredited
Anthony Havelock-Allan		story
Patrick Kirwan
Allan MacKinnon		story
Lesley Storm

Produced by
Anthony Havelock-Allan	....	producer
Theo Lageard	....	associate producer

Original Music by
Nicholas Brodszky
Marr Mackie		(uncredited)
Clifton Parker		(uncredited)

Cinematography by
Bernard Knowles

Film Editing by
Vera Campbell

Art Direction by
Carmen Dillon

Production Management
Theo Lageard	....	production manager (uncredited)

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Michael Anderson	....	assistant director

Sound Department
John Cook	....	sound
A.W. Watkins	....	recording director

Camera and Electrical Department
Cyril J. Knowles	....	camera operator

Editorial Department
Reginald Beck	....	editorial supervisor

Production Companies

• Two Cities Films

Distributors

• Columbia Pictures Corporation (1942) (UK) (theatrical)
• Shanachie (2004) (USA) (DVD)
• Filmgalerie 451 (????) (Germany) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

92 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:A (original rating) | UK:PG (re-rating) (2005) | Australia:G

Company:

Two Cities Films

common British WW II story

One of the films made by Two Cities Films in the 1940s and 1950s, this is a mostly, well-done story of newspaper reporters running into fifth-columnists within their midst in Britain during WW II. The editor of the paper and some other characters say some silly lines, but they can be overlooked. Richard Greene, Valerie Hobson, and Basil Radford star in this predictable spy thriller, showing the realities of bombed out London, although much of it is a background screen projection. The plot brings up the usual "Do we fight back or acquiesce?" wartime debate.

Hobson had played Elizabeth in Bride of Frankenstein with the master B. Karloff in 1935. Greene was Sir Henry Baskerville opposite Basil Rathbone prior to "Unpublished...", and would later play Robin Hood in the British TV series for several years. Two Cities Films was part by the Rank Organization, which made films for many years. The Rank Organization would later be turned into a casino operator, which is still operating as a public company in England. Another interesting tidbit is Hobson's marriage to producer/writer Anthoney Havelock-Allen; she appears to have met and married him in 1939, and made nine films together. Sadly, they divorced in 1952, and she only made a couple more films after that...