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Green Grow the Rushes (Original title)Brandy Ashore (Alternative title)
Date: 1951 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Derek Twist

Synopsis: Comedy of how marshland community claims itself to be exempt from ordinary laws and outwits band of civil servants.

Genre:
Comedy

Subject:
Smuggling
Releases
Date: 1951Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 77 mins Length: 7060 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: 2017Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer

Credits (28)
Production Company: A.C.T. Films, Executive Producer: Phil C. Samuel, Producer: John W. Gossage, Production Manager: P. Leigh Aman, Assistant Director: Cecil Ford, Continuity: Marjorie Owens, Casting: Maude Spector, Screenplay: Howard Clewes, Screenplay: Derek Twist, Based on the novel by: Howard Clewes, Director of Photography: Harry Waxman, Camera Operator: Gerald Moss, Camera Operator: Jim Bawden, Focus Puller: Sidney Davies, Clapper Loader: Peter Hall, Travelling Matte Process: Brian Langley, Editor: Hazel Wilkinson, Assistant Editor: Stanley Hawkes, Art Director: Fred Pusey, Wardrobe Master: Goff Price, Make-up: Kenneth Mckay, Hairdresser: Henry Montsash, Music/Music Conductor: Lambert Williamson, Sound Recording (Music): Len Shilton, Sound Recording: H.L. Bird, Director of Recording: Harold V. King, Dubbing Editor: Audrey Bennett
Cast (21)
Roger Livesey (Captain Cedric Biddle), Honor Blackman (Meg Cuffley), Richard Burton (Robert Hammond), Frederick Leister (Colonel Gill), John Salew (Finch), Colin Gordon (Fisherwick), Geoffrey Keen (Prudhoe), Cyril Smith (Hewitt), Eliot Makeham (Urquhart, the coastguard), Jack McNaughton (Bailiff Sergeant Edgar Rigby), Vida Hope (Polly Bainbridge), Russell Waters (Joseph Bainbridge, farmer), Archie Duncan (Constable Pettigrew), Arnold Ridley (Tom Cuffley), Gilbert Davis (Whitley), Harcourt Williams (chairman of the bench), John Stamp (King Henry III), Bryan Forbes (Fred Starling), Harold Goodwin (Gosling), Henrik Jacobsen (Sigismund), Betty Shale ([Mrs Bush])
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library (5)
In: Today's Cinema v83 n7128 27 Oct 1954  Page: 13
Title: [Today's Cinema - v83 n7128 27 Oct 1954: no known title]Language: English

In: Kinematograph Weekly n2471 4 Nov 1954  Page: 18
Title: [Kinematograph Weekly - n2471 4 Nov 1954: no known title]Language: English

In: Variety 21 Nov 1951
Title: [Variety - 21 Nov 1951: no known title]Language: English
Description: Rev.

In: Kinematograph Weekly n2316 15 Nov 1951  Page: 23
Title: [Kinematograph Weekly - n2316 15 Nov 1951: no known title]Language: English

In: Monthly Film Bulletin v18 n215 December 1951  Page: 371
Title: [Monthly Film Bulletin - v18 n215 December 1951: no known title]Language: English


Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(13)
Accessible materials to view(2)
Description: MP4 - LTO5MPEG-4 AVC - BFI identifier: N-604656
Status: Viewing - Digital file can be accessed on request


Description: MP4 - LTO5MPEG-4 AVC - BFI identifier: N-604656-2
Status: Viewing - Digital file can be accessed on request



Digital materials(8)
Description: DPX - LTO5BFI identifier: N-604692
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file


Description: DPX - LTO5BFI identifier: N-604692-2
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Description: WAV - LTO5BFI identifier: N-604711
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file


Description: WAV - LTO5BFI identifier: N-604711-2
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Description: MOV - LTO5ProRes 422 (HQ) - BFI identifier: N-604620
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file


Description: MOV - LTO5ProRes 422 (HQ) - BFI identifier: N-604620-2
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved digital file


Description: MP4 - LTO5MPEG-4 AVC - BFI identifier: N-604656
Status: Viewing - Digital file can be accessed on request


Description: MP4 - LTO5MPEG-4 AVC - BFI identifier: N-604656-2
Status: Viewing - Digital file can be accessed on request



Film materials(5)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: CTASound: CombinedLength: 5894 FeetStock date: 1951BFI identifier: C-27415
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film


Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: SafetySound: MuteLength: 7035 FeetStock date: 1986BFI identifier: C-97013
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film


Description: 35mm Master PositiveBase: SafetySound: SoundLength: 7048 FeetBFI identifier: C-72713
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film


Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 8240 FeetStock date: 1951BFI identifier: C-72712
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film


Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteLength: 8240 FeetStock date: 1950BFI identifier: C-72714
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film