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- BFI identifier29952
- Date1942 (Copyright)
1942-04 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisWartime story of a British works foreman who, as the German 1940 advance across France is underway, persuades employers to let him rescue three important machines from under the nose of enemy. Retrieving the machines is a closer shave than he has anticipated, and, enlisting the help of an American-born secretary working in France, and also two British soldiers with a truck who have lost contact with their unit, he transports them across France, hoping to reach a coastal town from which they can sail the machines back to safety in England. (Synopsis)
- Work historyThe opening credits include the following statements: 'The producers gratefully acknowledge the co-operation of the War Office and the Free French Forces' 'This picture is dedicated to Melbourne Johns. He is the foreman who went to France, and our story is based on his adventures.'
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- CastTommy Trinder (Tommy Hoskins)
Constance Cummings (Anne Stanford)
Clifford Evans (Fred Garrick)
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Title
The Foreman Went to France (Original)
Somewhere in France (Alternative)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/45C0-DEBD-DDDF-71A2-E5E3-NCategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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35mm BW Positive - Safety - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsMusic Cue Sheet (Special Collections) - MUS-543
Script - Original story: by J.B. Priestley - SCR-8198
Script - Original story: by J.B. Priestley - SCR-8199
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-29952
Ephemera: publicity - PBM-29952
For example of programme see CINEMA EPHEMERA: OVERSEAS (Egypt, Kasfareet, Astra). Medium pressbookand small press-sheet held. Music cue sheet held.
view all - Posters / DesignsDesign: production - Single sheet landscape - PD-16204
Poster: film - Single sheet landscape leaflet - PD-12626
Poster: film - Single sheet landscape leaflet - PD-12627
view all - StillsPhotograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00o-9s0
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Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00m-jxq
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00m-jxp
Photograph: print - Landscape - Black and White - bfi-00m-jxo
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Work - 29952 - 1942 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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