“Went the Day Well?” is a World War II thriller, based on the story by Graham Greene and Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti.
The
residents of an English village during WWII welcome a platoon of soldiers who
are to be billeted with them, but the trusting residents eventually discover
that the soldiers are really German paratroopers who proceed to hold the
village captive in advance of a planned invasion.
The
Germans block all the roads, so no one is allowed in or out, so the villagers
must try to smuggle someone out to alert the outside world to the impending
invasion.
“Went
the Day Well?” is one not to be missed and is very watchable with a large
familiar cast that reads as a veritable who’s who of British Cinema in the
1930’s and 40’s including;
Leslie
Banks, C.V. France, Valerie Taylor, Marie Lohr, Harry Fowler, Norman Pierce,
Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allan, Thora Hird, Muriel George, Patricia Hayes,
Mervyn Johns, Hilda Bayley, Edward Rigby, Johnnie Schofield, Ellis Irving,
Philippa Hiatt, Grace Arnold, Basil Sydney, David Farrar and John Slater.
