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Date: 28 July 1941 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Leslie Howard
Synopsis: A professor disguises his activities as an agent who rescues eminent men from the Nazis by a veneer of absentmindedness. His students help him rescue 5 men and a girl blackmailed by the Gestapo with the hope of rescuing her father.
Genre: War
Subjects: World War II, Espionage, Third Reich
Releases
Date: 1941Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 118 mins Length: 10618 FeetDialogue (original): English
Title: [Kinematograph Weekly - n1936 25 May 1944: no known title]Article type: ReviewLanguage: English
In: Today's Cinema v62 n5034 19 May 1944
Title: [Today's Cinema - v62 n5034 19 May 1944: no known title]Article type: ReviewLanguage: English
In: Today's Cinema v56 n4584 20 Jun 1941 Page: 7
Title: [Today's Cinema - v56 n4584 20 Jun 1941: no known title]Article type: ReviewLanguage: English
In: Motion Picture Herald v144 n1 5 Jul 1941
Title: [Motion Picture Herald - v144 n1 5 Jul 1941: no known title]Article type: ReviewLanguage: English
In: Kinematograph Weekly n1784 26 Jun 1941
Title: [Kinematograph Weekly - n1784 26 Jun 1941: no known title]Article type: ReviewLanguage: English
In: Page: 81
Title: [ - : no known title]
Author: ALDGATE, Anthony Pages: 350 p.
Title: Britain can take it: the British cinema in the Second World War
Author: ALDGATE, Anthony Pages: vi-vii. 362p.
Description: 49TH PARALLEL pp. 21-43 PIMPERNEL SMITH pp. 44-75 LET GEORGE DO IT pp. 76-95 The NEXT OF KIN pp. 96-114 WENT THE DAY WELL? pp.115-137 The YOUNG MR. PITT pp. 138-167 THUNDER ROCK pp. 168-186 IN WHICH WE SERVE pp. 187-217 FIRES WERE STARTED pp. 218-245 WESTERN APPROACHES pp. 246-276 WAY TO THE STARS pp. 277-298 TUNISIAN VICTORY pp. 300-325 SHIPS WITH WINGS pp. 327-345
Title: Britain can take it: the British cinema in the Second World War
Author: ALDGATE, Anthony Pages: 312p.
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(20)
Accessible materials to view(2)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 10820 FeetBFI identifier: C-128272
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveSound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-224169
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Video materials(1)
Description: Digital BetacamBFI identifier: N-376533
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved videotape
Film materials(19)
Description: Dupe NegativeBase: NitrateSound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-128273
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 10820 FeetBFI identifier: C-128272
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveSound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-224169
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: SafetySound: MixedLength: 10856 FeetBFI identifier: C-128270
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: NitrateSound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-128274
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteStock date: 1940BFI identifier: C-128280
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 10893 FeetStock date: 1941BFI identifier: C-128269
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 10618 FeetStock date: 1941BFI identifier: C-128276
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteStock date: 1941BFI identifier: C-128275
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteLength: 9013 FeetStock date: 1940BFI identifier: C-128277
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 10866 FeetStock date: 1941BFI identifier: C-128278
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteStock date: 1940BFI identifier: N-111931
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteStock date: 1940BFI identifier: N-111933
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteStock date: 1940BFI identifier: N-111935
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteStock date: 1941BFI identifier: N-111939
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteStock date: 1940BFI identifier: N-111943
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteStock date: 1940BFI identifier: N-111949
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteStock date: 1940BFI identifier: N-111953
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Re-recorded NegativeBase: SafetySound: SoundLength: 10903 FeetBFI identifier: C-128271
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Date: 28 July 1941 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Leslie Howard
Synopsis: A professor disguises his activities as an agent who rescues eminent men from the Nazis by a veneer of absentmindedness. His students help him rescue 5 men and a girl blackmailed by the Gestapo with the hope of rescuing her father.
Genre: War
Subjects: World War II, Espionage, Third Reich
Releases
Date: 1941Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 118 mins Length: 10618 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
(25)
Presents: British National Films Limited, Produced by: Leslie Howard, Associate Producer: Harold Huth, Production Manager: Phil C. Samuel, Assistant Director: George Pollock, Casting: Irene Howard, Screen Play: Anatole de Grunwald, Scenario: Anatole de Grunwald, Roland Pertwee, Based on an original story by: A.G. Macdonell, Wolfgang Wilhelm, Technical Supervision and Photography: Mutz Greenbaum, Camera Operator: Jack Hildyard, Supervising Editor: Sidney Cole, Editor: Douglas Myers, Settings: Duncan Sutherland, Assistant Art Director: Ward Richards, Make-up: Geoffrey Rodway, Music Composed by: John Greenwood, Music Direction: Muir Mathieson, Sound Supervisor: A.W. Watkins, [Sound] Recorded by: John Dennis, Sound System: Western Electric Mirrophonic, [Made] At [Denham Studios]: D&P Studios
Cast
(38)
Leslie Howard (Professor Horatio Smith), Francis Sullivan (General von Graum), Hugh Macdermott (David Maxwell), Mary Morris (Ludmilla Koslowski), Raymond Huntley (Marx), Manning Whiley (Bertie Gregson), Peter Gawthorne (Sidimir Koslowski), Allan Jeayes (Dr Benckendorf), Dennis Arundell (Hoffman), Joan Kemp-Welch (schoolteacher), Philip Friend (Spencer), Lawrence Kitchen (Clarence Elstead), David Tomlinson (Steve), Basil Appleby (Jock MacIntyre), Percy Walsh (Dvorak), Suzanne Claire (salesgirl), Roland Pertwee (embassy official - Sir George Smith), Charles Paton (Steinhof), Aubrey Mallalieu (dean), George Street (Schmidt), Oriel Ross (Lady Willoughby), A.E. Matthews (Earl of Meadowbrook), Brian Herbert (Jaromir), Arthur Hambling (Jordan), Ben Williams (Graubitz), Ernest Butcher (Weber), Mary Brown (girl student), W. Phillips (innkeeper), Ilse Bard (Gretchen), Ernest Verne (German officer), Hector Abbas (Karl Meyer), Neal Arden (second prisoner), Richard George (prison guard), Roddy Hughes (Zigor), Hwfa Pryce (Wagner), John Slater (reporter), Michael Rennie (officer at concentration camp), Violete Cunnington (shop assistant)
Articles held in BFI Reuben Library
(6)
In: Kinematograph Weekly n1936 25 May 1944Title: [Kinematograph Weekly - n1936 25 May 1944: no known title]Article type: ReviewLanguage: English
In: Today's Cinema v62 n5034 19 May 1944
Title: [Today's Cinema - v62 n5034 19 May 1944: no known title]Article type: ReviewLanguage: English
In: Today's Cinema v56 n4584 20 Jun 1941 Page: 7
Title: [Today's Cinema - v56 n4584 20 Jun 1941: no known title]Article type: ReviewLanguage: English
In: Motion Picture Herald v144 n1 5 Jul 1941
Title: [Motion Picture Herald - v144 n1 5 Jul 1941: no known title]Article type: ReviewLanguage: English
In: Kinematograph Weekly n1784 26 Jun 1941
Title: [Kinematograph Weekly - n1784 26 Jun 1941: no known title]Article type: ReviewLanguage: English
In: Page: 81
Title: [ - : no known title]
Books held in BFI Reuben Library
(3)
Title: Britain can take it: British cinema in the Second World WarAuthor: ALDGATE, Anthony Pages: 350 p.
Title: Britain can take it: the British cinema in the Second World War
Author: ALDGATE, Anthony Pages: vi-vii. 362p.
Description: 49TH PARALLEL pp. 21-43 PIMPERNEL SMITH pp. 44-75 LET GEORGE DO IT pp. 76-95 The NEXT OF KIN pp. 96-114 WENT THE DAY WELL? pp.115-137 The YOUNG MR. PITT pp. 138-167 THUNDER ROCK pp. 168-186 IN WHICH WE SERVE pp. 187-217 FIRES WERE STARTED pp. 218-245 WESTERN APPROACHES pp. 246-276 WAY TO THE STARS pp. 277-298 TUNISIAN VICTORY pp. 300-325 SHIPS WITH WINGS pp. 327-345
Title: Britain can take it: the British cinema in the Second World War
Author: ALDGATE, Anthony Pages: 312p.
Film, Video or Digital materials held in BFI National Archive(20)
Accessible materials to view(2)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 10820 FeetBFI identifier: C-128272
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveSound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-224169
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Video materials(1)
Description: Digital BetacamBFI identifier: N-376533
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved videotape
Film materials(19)
Description: Dupe NegativeBase: NitrateSound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-128273
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm BW PositiveBase: SafetySound: CombinedLength: 10820 FeetBFI identifier: C-128272
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm BW PositiveSound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-224169
Status: Viewing - Film print can be requested for access (servicing required)
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: SafetySound: MixedLength: 10856 FeetBFI identifier: C-128270
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: NitrateSound: CombinedBFI identifier: C-128274
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Dupe NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteStock date: 1940BFI identifier: C-128280
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 10893 FeetStock date: 1941BFI identifier: C-128269
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Duplicating PositiveBase: NitrateSound: CombinedLength: 10618 FeetStock date: 1941BFI identifier: C-128276
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteStock date: 1941BFI identifier: C-128275
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteLength: 9013 FeetStock date: 1940BFI identifier: C-128277
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: SoundLength: 10866 FeetStock date: 1941BFI identifier: C-128278
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteStock date: 1940BFI identifier: N-111931
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteStock date: 1940BFI identifier: N-111933
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteStock date: 1940BFI identifier: N-111935
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteStock date: 1941BFI identifier: N-111939
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteStock date: 1940BFI identifier: N-111943
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteStock date: 1940BFI identifier: N-111949
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Original NegativeBase: NitrateSound: MuteStock date: 1940BFI identifier: N-111953
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film
Description: 35mm Re-recorded NegativeBase: SafetySound: SoundLength: 10903 FeetBFI identifier: C-128271
Status: Master - Restricted access to preserved film