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Went the Day Well? is a 1942 British war film adapted from a story by Graham Greene and directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. It was produced by Michael Balcon of Ealing Studios and served as unofficial propaganda for the war effort.
Went the Day Well?: Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. With Leslie Banks, C.V. France, Valerie Taylor, Marie Lohr. An English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion.
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- Thriller, War
- Alberto Cavalcanti
- 1944-06-28
Went the Day Well? Released Jun 24, 1944 1h 36m Drama List 93% Tomatometer 14 Reviews 91% Audience Score 500+ Ratings Residents of an English village unwittingly welcome Nazi soldiers who...
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- Leslie Banks
- Alberto Cavalcanti
- Drama
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Summaries. An English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion. 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.
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Decades after Britain's darkest hours of the 1940s, Went the Day Well? remains a first-rate war movie and a vivid embodiment of the time and place that produced it. Director: Cavalcanti Producer: Michael Balcon Screenplay: John Dighton, Diana Morgan, and Angus Macphail; from a story by Graham Greene Cinematographer: Wilkie Cooper
Synopsis by Hal Erickson. Released in the US as Forty-Eight Hours, Went the Day Well? is a solidly constructed wartime melodrama. Actually, the film covers 72 hours in the life of the small British village of Bramley Green, which serves as the focal point for an attempted German invasion.
