Gripping wartime thriller with Hugh Williams starring as a British journalist working in Norway who finds himself hunted by the Germans when he uncovers a secret U-boat base. Deborah Kerr co-stars as the daughter of a Norwegian sea captain helping the Brit combat the Nazi menace.

The.Day.Will.Dawn.1941.DVDRip.x264.mkv

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The post Harold French – The Day Will Dawn (1942) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Unpublished Story is an extremely well executed British World War II propaganda piece, and what sets it apart from other entries in this subgenre is its clever plot centered around that very topic. The film’s pace is unstoppable; the script by Patrick Kirwan and Lesley Storm based on a story by Anthony Havelock-Allan is intelligent, well-written, and unique in its approach to the subject matter; and the acting is of the usual high caliber that devotees of even the lowest-budgeted British quickies have come to expect in which the smallest roles are perfectly cast.

Richard Greene, who is excellent here, appeared in dozens of costume epics throughout the 1940s and ’50s, starring in B-flicks but usually playing second banana to the likes of Cornell Wilde in major productions such as Otto Preminger’s Forever Amber in 1947. I first knew him as Robin Hood in the TV series that ran from 1955 to 1960, and other horror fans may remember him in the “Wish You Were Here” episode of Freddie Francis’s EC Comics-style anthology Tales from the Crypt (1972), a horrifyingly gruesome take on “The Monkey’s Paw” in which he suffered a fate literally worse than death. He’s the British equivalent of Robert Cummings, a handsome, dashing, and dedicated actor who rarely got the recognition he deserved, and his role in Unpublished Story is similar to Cummings’s character in Alfred Hitchcock’s Saboteur made the same year.

Valerie Hobson is probably best known as Colin Clive’s wife in Bride of Frankenstein (1935) and Henry Hull’s distaff side in Werewolf of London. She does play a fashion writer here with “Clothes by Rahvis,” but some of her costumes look so outré they could have been leftovers from either of those two earlier films. She had a lead role opposite Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in Raoul Walsh’s Jump for Glory in 1937, and while she gives a fine performance here, she wasn’t really recognized until toward the end of her career in Kind Hearts and Cornets (1949) and The Rocking Horse Winner (1950).

The film was directed by Harold French who helmed two other British propaganda films in 1942, The Day Will Dawn and Secret Mission, and several others throughout the war, along with some light comedies. The cinematography is by Bernard Knowles, who worked with Alfred Hitchcock on five films in the 1930s including The 39 Steps, Secret Agent, and Sabotage, and the original Gaslight directed by Thorold Dickinson and released in the United States as Angel Street. –DVD Verdict

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Adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham comprise this anthology film in which the celebrated author introduces each segment of the film in front of the camera.

Encore (1951).mkv

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Nigel Patrick plays a suave but dead-serious British narcotics agent in this sporadically exciting crime melodrama. Patrick is determined that the drug traffic will not spread into his territory. He finds an unexpected ally in Joyce Grenfell, an inveterate bird-watcher.

Ms. Grenfell aids Patrick in trapping a brother-sister smuggling team (Elizabeth Sellars and Terence Morgan).

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In this adaptation made during the the London Blitz of George Bernard Shaw’s edgy comedy of the same name, Wendy Hiller as the idealistic title character is running a Salvation Army shelter in the East End that aims to save the souls of the destitute while preserving their physical well-being. She becomes engaged to the sceptical, unworldly Adolphus Cusins (Rex Harrison), a professor of Ancient Greek who discards his agnosticism and joins the Salvation Army to be near his fiancee. Cusins is then startled to learn that Major Barbara in fact comes from a privileged background – she is the grand-daughter of an earl on her mother’s side, and her long-absent estranged father Andrew Undershaft (a young Robert Morley) is a multi-millionaire arms manufacturer.

Undershaft is a self-made cynic, a man who relies on his intelligence and wealth to overawe others. When invited to resume contact with his wife and children to help with the family finances, he becomes convinced that Barbara is wasting her abilities in evangelising to the poor, and seeks to overturn her belief system. For her part, Barbara is fascinated by her father yet appalled that his fortune has been built out of violence and destruction. But when Undershaft makes a large and much-needed donation to the Salvation Army that Barbara’s superiors have no hesitation in accepting, he succeeds in challenging his daughter’s principles and undermining her loyalties. At the same time, Cusins is finding Undershaft’s philosophical stance strangely congenial…

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