Went the Day Well?

Geez! The stakes in this game are as high as electric wires!       I didn’t know exactly what I was getting into in this rural British setting but dang do things get turned to eleven in a way that I didn’t think that 1942 could.      First of all we get a naturalized…

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WENT THE DAY WELL? 1942, Albert Cavalcanti. I was gobsmocked when I saw this in film school and it's still the damndest thing. A British WWIl propaganda film (written by Graham Greene) made when the outcome of the war was far from certain. Yet it radiates English manners…

Paul Schrader

You don't mess with a gun toting Thora Hird! A superb wartime propaganda piece from Ealing and a classic war film, 1942's Went The Day Well? has its origins in a Graham Greene short story entitled The Lieutenant Died Last. Published two years earlier, Greene's story…

Mark Cunliffe 🇵🇸

With this being released at the height of Britain's paranoia of a possible German invasion, it's just so frightening and effective at portraying the possibility of German invasion, and being set in this small town called Bramley is even more frightening. This is a…

Sam

Cinematic Time Capsule 1942 Marathon - Film #73 ”I can’t believe we’re not in the middle of a most terrible nightmare.” When a group of British soldiers arrive in the small, fictitious English village of Bramley End it’s not long before the villagers begin to suspect…

📀 Cammmalot 📀

RECOMMENDED BY Jacob While there has always been stylistic films even back on the silent era, there's no doubt Ealing Studios have been one the first to have a brand of their own. Their use of particular dry, very British humor with some quite interesting, often…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

2nd Alberto Cavalcanti (after 'Christmas Party' and 'Ventriloquist' segments in Dead of Night) Went the Day Well? is marked out from other UK propaganda cinema of WW2 for its unrelenting brutality. The cheery optimism of films like Love on the Dole and Millions Like Us,…

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Surprisingly dark and gripping. It kind of transcends its wartime propaganda purpose, eschewing happy jingoism and instead going for the grittier what if some Nazi’s pretended to be British officers and took over a British village ahead of a planned invasion approach and…

Lexzilla

A propaganda film that works effectively on several levels. If I had seen it in 1942, I definitely would have called it a horror film. The small town of Bramley End becomes a battlefield. You see, they have successfully infiltrated it under a very believable pretext. It…

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