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Release Date: 1942

Cast: Edward Rigby, Leslie Banks, Frank Lawton, Mervyn Johns, Norman Pierce, Valerie Taylor, C.V. France, Marie Lohr, Elizabeth Allan, David Farrar, Basil Sydney, Thora Hird ...MORE

Cast: Edward Rigby, Leslie Banks, Frank Lawton, Mervyn Johns, Norman Pierce, Valerie Taylor, C.V. France, Marie Lohr, Elizabeth Allan, David Farrar, Basil Sydney, Thora Hird, Harry Fowler ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Drama Film, War Film, Thriller, Black-And-White

"Went the Day Well?" is a British war film produced by Ealing Studios in 1942 as unofficial propaganda. It tells of how an English village is taken over by German paratroopers (Fallschirmjäger). Made during the war, it reflects the greatest potential nightmares of many Britons of the time, although the threat of invasion had largely receded by this point. (Germany's planned invasion, Operation Sea Lion, had been indefinitely postponed.) It includes the first major role of Thora Hird, and one of the last of C.V. France. It was filmed in Turville, Buckinghamshire. During the Second World... MORE

"Went the Day Well?" is a British war film produced by Ealing Studios in 1942 as unofficial propaganda. It tells of how an English village is taken over by German paratroopers (Fallschirmjäger). Made during the war, it reflects the greatest potential nightmares of many Britons of the time, although the threat of invasion had largely receded by this point. (Germany's planned invasion, Operation Sea Lion, had been indefinitely postponed.) It includes the first major role of Thora Hird, and one of the last of C.V. France. It was filmed in Turville, Buckinghamshire. During the Second World War a group of seemingly normal British soldiers arrive in the small, fictitious English village of "Bramley End". At first they are welcomed by the villagers, until doubts begin to grow about their true purpose and identity. After they are revealed to be German soldiers intended to form the vanguard of an invasion of England they round up the residents and hold them captive in the local church. The civilians attempt to escape to warn the local Home Guard, but are betrayed by the village squire, who is revealed to be collaborating with the Germans, who ambush and kill the Home Guards. Eventually a LESS