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Budget. £69,000 [1] Give Us the Moon is a 1944 British comedy film directed and written by Val Guest and starring Vic Oliver, Margaret Lockwood and Peter Graves. [2] [3] Lockwood had just become a star with The Man in Grey and did the film because she did not want to be typecast as a villainess.
- Val Guest
- Edward Black
Give Us the Moon: Directed by Val Guest. With Margaret Lockwood, Vic Oliver, Peter Graves, Roland Culver. A young man falls in with a society whose principle is a complete disregard for work, and chaos ensues when the society decides to help run the hotel of his father.
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- Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
- Val Guest
- 1944-07-31
Brief Synopsis. Read More. Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like the idea of having to work for a living.
Summaries. A young man falls in with a society whose principle is a complete disregard for work, and chaos ensues when the society decides to help run the hotel of his father. In Britain after the end of WWII, it is a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all).
Overview. Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like the idea of having to work for a living.
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Give Us the Moon plot. Good-for-nothing Peter (Graves), the youngest son of a hard-working hotel owner, doesn't like the idea of having to work for the rest of his life. He discovers a special association called "the White Elephants". There are all those people who are just as lazy as he is, they teach him to survive without working.
