Went the Day Well?
Went the day well? We died and never knew. But, well or ill, freedom we died for you.
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DVD Features:
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 28 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Released: July 9, 2015
- Originally Released: 1942
- Label: Reel Vault
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Aspect Ratio: Full Frame
- Audio:
- (unspecified) - English
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allan & Mervyn Johns | |
| Performer: | Basil Sydney, Frank Lawton, Valerie Taylor, David Farrar, Marie Lohr, Harry Fowler, Thora Hird, Edward Rigby & C.V. France | |
| Directed by | Alberto Cavalcanti | |
| Edited by | Sidney Cole | |
| Screenplay by | John Dighton, Diana Morgan & Angus MacPhail | |
| Original story by | Graham Greene | |
| Composition by | William Walton | |
| Produced by | Michael Balcon | |
| Director of Photography: | Wilkie Cooper |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 3.5 --
A sickeningly giddy action thriller that looks forward to Straw Dogs, Inglorious Basterds, and Red Dawn.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: A --
As an effective work of surreptitious World War II propaganda, "Went the Day Well" is instructive on many levels.
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ColeSmithey.com
To look down on the blatant propagandizing of Went the Day Well? is pointless insofar as it disallows the possibility of learning from it, but it's nevertheless difficult to not take certain elements of the film with a grain of salt.
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Not Coming to a Theater Near You
Rating: 5/10 --
Its jingoistic nastiness and nationalist aggrandizement makes this film exactly the kind of nonsense Powell & Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp was made in response to.
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Nate Hood Reviews
Rating: 5/5 --
A wartime conspiracy thriller, a black-comic nightmare and a surrealist masterpiece in which stoutly English-seeming army types reveal themselves to be Nazis, like the reflected figures turning their backs on us in Renà (C) Magritte's mirror.
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Guardian
Long the cineaste's favourite wartime propaganda movie, Cavalcanti's darkly comic invasion drama still surprises and delights with its unexpected second-act change of gear and genre.
Sight and Sound
WENT THE DAY WELL' is the innocent-sounding title of one of the most subversive films to come out of World War II, a British drama that was unsettling in its day and is even more so now.
Los Angeles Times
Product Description:
Made in 1942, when the possibility of a German land invasion of Britain seemed all to real to the citizens of England, WENT THE DAY WELL' was originally intended as a propaganda film. Being superbly made, however, it has managed to maintain its power in the interceding years. A group of soldiers arrives in a small British town with orders to be interred there for a period. The townspeople are happy to have them, until they discover that the soldiers are in fact German spies. With no help in sight, the people find that they themselves will have to fight back against the Germans. WENT THE DAY WELL' transcended its wartime propaganda purposes to become a classic of British film.
Product Description:
During WWII, British villagers hospitably receive a platoon of soldiers who will be billeted with them. But as it turns out, they're actually German paratroopers who hold the village hostage. Produced by Michael Balcon. Written by John Dighton and Angus M
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- Sales Rank: 8,617
- UPC: 644827112722
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