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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Leslie Banks | ... | Oliver Wilsford | |
| C.V. France | ... | The Vicar | |
| Valerie Taylor | ... | Nora | |
| Marie Lohr | ... | Mrs. Fraser | |
| Harry Fowler | ... | Young George | |
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Norman Pierce | ... | Jim Sturry |
| Frank Lawton | ... | Tom Sturry | |
| Elizabeth Allan | ... | Peggy | |
| Thora Hird | ... | Ivy | |
| Muriel George | ... | Mrs. Collins | |
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Patricia Hayes | ... | Daisy |
| Mervyn Johns | ... | Charlie Sims | |
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Hilda Bayley | ... | Cousin Maud |
| Edward Rigby | ... | Bill Purvis | |
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Johnnie Schofield | ... | Joe Garbett (as Johnny Schofield) |
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Storyline
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. Written by Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
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Country:
UKRelease Date:
28 June 1944 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Box Office
Opening Weekend USA:
$8,606, 27 May 2011, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$24,509, 27 May 2011Company Credits
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Mono (RCA Sound System) (as RCA)Color:
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1.37 : 1
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"Went the day well? We died and never knew, But, well or ill, Freedom, we died for you" See more »
(uncredited)
Words by Robert Herrick
Music by Charles Edward Horn
Sung by Maude on her way to visit Mrs Fraser
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When the soldier puts the cookbook in the car, the position of his left arm changes. See more »Quotes
Mrs. Collins: [after witnessing one of the "Royal Engineers" abuse an inquisitive boy] Oh, you great beast! You great bullying brute you, knocking a child about! You're a disgrace to your uniform! Why, you're no better than a German, - that's what you are!See more »
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Opening credits prologue:"Went the day well? We died and never knew, But, well or ill, Freedom, we died for you" See more »
Soundtracks
Cherry Ripe(uncredited)
Words by Robert Herrick
Music by Charles Edward Horn
Sung by Maude on her way to visit Mrs Fraser
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Alberto Cavalcanti's outstanding piece of wartime propaganda is worthy of Hitchcock at his best. It's a surprisingly bleak and sometimes vicious study of British resilience, light years away from the dull Hollywood sentimentality of "Mrs Miniver". It's about a group of Fifth Columnists who take over a small British village in 1942 in preparation for the German invasion and of how the villagers fight back.
It has all the usual stereotypical villagers, (the post-mistress, the squire etc), but these clichéd parts are turned on their heads with surprisingly suspenseful results. Good performances, too, from everybody in a film that is largely undervalued, certainly in this country where we are inclined to acknowledge our 'heroism' but draw the line at going beyond that, as this film does, somewhat uncomfortably.