- BFI identifier15596
- Date1944-01-10 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisThe career of an actor's dresser in the Navy is recounted from his training to his receipt of the D.S.M. at Buckingham Palace. (Synopsis) Propaganda story about a clumsy theatrical dresser, who becomes a skilled mechanic with the Fleet Air Arm. Note: A shorter version (1930ft) of this film is also held. This may be the overseas version of the film. (Shotlist)
- Work historyDedicated to the Fleet Air Arm.
- Genre
- CategoryNon Fiction
- Subject
- CreditsDirected by: Michael Powell
Directed by: Emeric Pressburger
Production Company: Archers Film Productions
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Title
The Volunteer (Original)
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- Scripts / DocumentsVolunteer - WWII short, forty minute recruitment / propaganda film. Fred Davey is not much of a theatrical dresser, as his thespian boss, played by Ralph Richardson, discovers. But he finds his true vocation in the forces. Powell and Pressburger made this stirring mini-feature, which follows a young volunteer's progress from enlistment in the Navy's Fleet Air Arm to his subsequent decoration for valour. Written and directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Cast including: Ralph Richardson, Pat McGrath, Anna Neagle, Herbert Wilcox, Laurence Olivier [The Volunteer was made swiftly, but under difficult conditions. Filmed on board air craft carrier "Indomitable", which was at sea and likely to engage in action at any time] Please note: for other cuttings on the film see MLP-1-1-54-5-1-1 [Large scrapbook of cuttings for A Canterbury Tale (1943)] including reviews and a double page illustrated trade ad in Kinematograph Weekly pasted onto the final page 11 November 1943 - MLP-1-1-53
Script & story development - MLP-1-1-53-1
Post-production - MLP-1-1-53-2
Reel-by reel synopsis - File containing: - typescript single sheet listing the 5 reels of the film and synopsis of scenes within each reel [for post-production use?] no date c. 1943 - three further copies of the above [formerly Box 53 267.27] - MLP-1-1-53-2-1
Exhibition - MLP-1-1-53-4
view all - StillsPhotograph: film still - Landscape - SPD-1257961
Photograph: film still - Landscape - SPD-1257962
Photograph: film still - Portrait - SPD-1257963
Photograph: film still - Landscape - SPD-1257964
Photograph: print - Portrait - Black and White - bfi-00o-a3i
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Work - 15596 - 1944-01-10 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Non Fiction
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