Went the Day Well?: Based on a Short Story by Graham Greene

A quiet English village is visited unexpectedly by a platoon of "Royal Engineers". When the soldiers are revealed as German troops, the villagers stage a fightback. Conceived, like Ealing's earlier "The Next of Kin" (1942), to highlight the dangers of a Nazi invasion, "...

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Beteilige Person: Greene, Graham (VerfasserIn)
Weitere beteiligte Personen: Cavalcanti, Alberto (RegisseurIn), Cooper, Wilkie (Kameramann/frau), Banks, Leslie (SchauspielerIn), Johns, Mervyn (SchauspielerIn), Lohr, Marie (SchauspielerIn)
Format: Video Software
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: London Optimum [2011]
Schriftenreihe:Vintage Classics
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Zusammenfassung:A quiet English village is visited unexpectedly by a platoon of "Royal Engineers". When the soldiers are revealed as German troops, the villagers stage a fightback. Conceived, like Ealing's earlier "The Next of Kin" (1942), to highlight the dangers of a Nazi invasion, "Went the Day Well?" (1942) is one of the most effective wartime films, although it suffered from the fact that, by the time of its release, the real threat of invasion had passed. "Went the Day Well?" has its origins in a Graham Greene short story, "The Lieutenant Died Last", published in an American magazine in June 1940. Greene's story concerns a poacher, Bill Purves, a Boer War veteran, who single-handedly overcomes a Nazi attempt to invade a rural English village. But aside from the central premise of invasion and the retention of the poacher as a minor character (renamed Bill Purvis), little of Greene's story remains in the script by seasoned Ealing writers John Dighton, Diana Morgan and Angus MacPhail. [www.screenonline.org.uk]
Umfang:1 DVD-Video (89 Min.) schwarz-weiß