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Synopsis: After the evacuation at Dunkirk, June 1940, some thousands of British prisoners are sent to German P.O.W. camps. One such group includes "Capt. Geoffrey Mitchell," a concentration-camp escapee who assumed the identity of a dead British officer. To avoid exposure, "Mitchell" must correspond with the dead man's estranged wife Celia. But eventual exposure seems certain, and the men must find a way to get him out. If he reaches England, though, what will his reception be?
Genre: Drama, War
Director(s): Basil Dearden
Production: Ealing Studios
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.1
APPROVED
Year:
1946
86 min
63 Views


Oh, I beg your pardon.

Your husband's regiment?

5th Oxford

light infantry.

General index. Give me particulars

of Captain Geoffrey Mitchell,

5th Oxfordshire

light infantry, will you?

I'd like to send him parcels.

I suppose I can do that.

Oh, yes, certainly.

...flag 27.

Prisoner of war number 1376.

Thank you.

Hello, Mummy!

Hello, darling.

Have you had a lovely day

with Grandpa?

Will Father ever come back to us,

Grandpa,

Even when the war's over?

Well, would you be glad if he did?

No. He used to make Mummy cry.

He is a prisoner.

Hello, Desmond.

Hello, Mummy.

Janet, I'll leave you in charge.

Well?

He didn't put me down as next of kin.

Well, that seems to be the final gesture,

doesn't it, my dear?

It was only logical, I suppose.

Poor Geoffrey.

Poor Geoffrey?

Well, I for one don't intend to shed

any tears over him.

Father?

I'm going to write to him.

You are?

Yes.

Can't do any harm or good.

They must be glad

of any news of home.

I don't suppose poor Geoffrey

ever portrayed

the faintest interest in his home.

I can tell him how the children

are getting on.

I can see Geoffrey regaling

his fellow prisoners

with news of the children he's

scarcely ever seen.

You're afraid, aren't you, Father?

Certainly. I'm afraid that you may let

yourself be carried away

by sentimentality and suggest

patching things up with him.

Don't worry.

We said so many hard,

cruel things to each other.

I'd like to wipe out

the memory of them.

And then if we should happen to meet

when the war's over,

it won't be as enemies.

Here. Go easy

with the soap.

Sorry, old boy.

We may make it last 2 days more

if we're very careful.

After that, we've got to make

do with godliness.

I say, Padre, what are you smoking?

Sauerkraut?

Fag ends, fag ends, fag ends.

Lucky fellow. I'm down to

Mr. Middleton's specials.

I hear there's a bush up by the...

That's not too bad in a pipe.

Had a marvelous

dream last night.

Anybody I know?

Eggs and bacon.

Tomato ketchup this time.

We must have lost

a shocking lot of stuff.

There's nothing to stop 'em.

He's bound to invade

before the end of summer,

And that's the end of us.

Here, steady.

What about the home fleet?

What about the Luftwaffe

waiting for the home fleet?

Well, of all the damn defeated!

Well, if you prefer to be a ruddy halfwit.

What about the RAF?

Hitler can't stage an invasion

until he's got control of the air,

and I don't see the boys handing

him that on a plate.

Hear, hear!

You can't judge Hitler

by ordinary standards.

If he thinks he'll invade,

he'll invade.

My old woman makes the kids pay a penny

a week for the Red Cross.

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Angus MacPhail

Angus MacPhail (8 April 1903 – 22 April 1962) was an English screenwriter, active from the late 1920s, who is best remembered for his work with Alfred Hitchcock.He was born in London and educated at Westminster School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge where he studied English and edited Granta. He first worked in the film business in 1926 writing subtitles for silent films. He then began writing his own scenarios for Gaumont British Studios and later Ealing Studios under Sir Michael Balcon. During World War II he made films for the Ministry of Information. One of Alfred Hitchcock’s favourite devices for driving the plots of his stories and creating suspense was what he called the MacGuffin. Ivor Montagu, who worked with Hitchcock on several of his British films, attributes the coining of the term to MacPhail. more…

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