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Budget. $680,000 [1] 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
May 21, 2021 · Alberto Cavalcanti. Publication date. 1942. Topics. Alberto Cavalcanti, Ealing Studios, thriller, war, WWII. Language. English. 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.
- 89 min
- 6.7K
- Shadows of the Dark
Went the Day Well seems at first to a flag-waving propaganda movie. It contains a good deal of exciting adventure, and the attitudes towards foreigners held by the villagers are cheerfully xenophobic.
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- Leslie Banks
- Alberto Cavalcanti
- Drama
May 1942. The small English village of Bramley End is visited by a detachment of about 60 Royal Engineers. They are ostensibly there on an exercise but are in actual fact a detachment of German paratroopers, the advance guard of Hitler's invasion of England. Some of the villagers figure out their true identities but before they can do anything ...
Jul 8, 2010 · Went the Day Well? Alberto Cavalcanti's wartime propaganda thriller about fifth columnists in an English village remains a prescient masterpiece, writes Peter Bradshaw. A lberto Cavalcanti's 1942 ...
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Went The Day Well? (1942) -- (Movie Clip) You Can Speak Quite Freely Innocent goings-on in an English village, Major Hammond (Basil Sydney) explaining his mission to the vicar (C.V. France) whose daughter (Valerie Taylor) brings along home-guard chief Wilsford (Leslie Banks), Mrs. Fraser (Marie Lohr) arranging rooms for soldiers, before a seismic plot turn, in Went The Day Well, 1942.
