The Foreman Went to France (Original title)Somewhere in France (Alternative title)
Dates: 1942 (Copyright), April 1942 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Charles Frend
Synopsis: Wartime 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.
Genre: War
Subjects: World War II, Western Offensive, The (1940), Refugees
Releases
Date: 22 June 1942Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 85 mins Length: 7636 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Ealing Distribution Ltd.
Dates: 1942 (Copyright), April 1942 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Charles Frend
Synopsis: Wartime 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.
Genre: War
Subjects: World War II, Western Offensive, The (1940), Refugees
Releases
Date: 22 June 1942Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 85 mins Length: 7636 FeetDialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: Ealing Distribution Ltd.
Credits
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©: Ealing Studios, Presents: Ealing Studios, Distributed by: United Artists, Produced by: Michael Balcon, Associate Producer: Cavalcanti, Unit Manager: Hal Mason, Production Manager: John Croydon, [Assistant Director]: Ronald Brantford, [Continuity]: Daphne Heathcote, Screen Play by: Angus MacPhail, Screen Play by: John Dighton, Leslie Arliss, Original Narrative by: J.B. Priestley, Photography: Wilkie Cooper, [2nd Unit Camera]: Cecil Cooney, Douglas Slocombe, [Focus Puller]: Paul Beeson, [Stills]: Eddie Orton, Editor: Robert Hamer, [Assistant Editor]: Diana Poole, Art Director: Tom Morahan, [Assistant Art Director]: Arthur Lawson, [Draughtsman]: Michael Relph, Music by: William Walton, Musical Director: Ernest Irving, Sound Supervisor: Eric Williams, [Sound] Recordist: L. Page, [Sound Assistant]: R. Jones, Ken Foster, [Studio Sound Camera]: Peter T. Davies, Sound System: RCA Sound System, Thanked in credits: The War Office, Free French Forces, Dedicated to: Melbourne Johns, Produced and Recorded at: Ealing Studios
Cast
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Tommy Trinder (Tommy Hoskins), Constance Cummings (Anne Stanford), Clifford Evans (Fred Garrick), Robert Morley (the mayor), Gordon Jackson (Alastair 'Jock' MacFarlane), Ernest Milton (stationmaster), Charles Victor (Jim, roof spotter), John y Williams ('English army captain'), Paul Bonifas (prefect), Anita Palacine (barmaid), François Sully (French skipper), Owen Reynolds ([Collins, works manager]), Ronald Adam ([Sir Charles Fawcett]), Bill Blewett ([roof spotter]), Mervyn Johns ([passport official]), Eric Maturin ([Home Office official]), John Boxer ([Ministry of Home Security official]), Mrs Blewett ([nun]), Guy Mas ([French sergeant]), Tony Ainsley ([American ambulance driver]), Thora Hird ([barmaid]), Forbes-Fraser-Michele ([Marie, French child]), Edward Lisle ([Georges, French child]), Irene Kirrilloff ([Gabrielle, French child]), Robert Bendall ([Henri, French child]), Madeleine Rive ([Jacqueline, French child]), Nova Horman ([Denise, French child])