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Went the Day Well? is a 1942 British war film adapted from a story by Graham Greene and directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. It was produced by Michael Balcon of Ealing Studios and served as unofficial propaganda for the war effort.
Went the Day Well?: Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. With Leslie Banks, C.V. France, Valerie Taylor, Marie Lohr. An English village is occupied by disguised German paratroopers as an advance post for a planned invasion.
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- Thriller, War
- Alberto Cavalcanti
- 1944-06-28
May 21, 2021 · Though originally conceived of as a wartime propaganda film, "Went Well the Day?" stands on its own as audacious filmmaking of the highest order, with riveting intrigue and stunning, if not shocking, plot twists.
- 89 min
Residents of an English village unwittingly welcome Nazi soldiers who intend to take over their town.
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- Leslie Banks
- Alberto Cavalcanti
- Drama
Sep 28, 2011 · The new BFI restoration of Cavalcanti's 'Went the Day Well' opened 9 July 2010. Cavalcanti's wartime film, based on a story by Graham Greene, still unsettles, even shocks, with its...
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- 75.6K
- BFITrailers
The small English village of Bramley End is visited by a detachment of about 60 Royal Engineers. They are ostensibly there on an exercise but are in actual fact a detachment of German paratroopers, the advance guard of Hitler's invasion of England.
A quiet English village is visited unexpectedly by a platoon of 'Royal Engineers'. When the soldiers are revealed as German troops, the villagers stage a fightback. Show full synopsis. Conceived, like Ealing 's earlier The Next of Kin (d. Thorold Dickinson, 1942), to highlight the dangers of a Nazi invasion, Went the Day Well? (d.
