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| 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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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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Opening Weekend USA:
$8,606, 27 May 2011, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
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Mrs Fraser: I see - so you think there's a German spy among Major Hammond's men - a spy who can't understand English?
Nora: No, that's absurd of course.
Mrs Fraser: [very sarcastically] Perhaps they're all German spies cunningly disguised as Royal Engineers.
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(uncredited)
attributed to Rabano Mauro
Arranged by Ernest Irving
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Nora: He might have been a German for all you could tell.Mrs Fraser: I see - so you think there's a German spy among Major Hammond's men - a spy who can't understand English?
Nora: No, that's absurd of course.
Mrs Fraser: [very sarcastically] Perhaps they're all German spies cunningly disguised as Royal Engineers.
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(after credits) ... and men of The Gloucestershire Regiment By kind permission of The War Office See more »Soundtracks
Veni Creator Spiritus(uncredited)
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Arranged by Ernest Irving
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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.