Showing posts with label Harold French. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harold French. Show all posts

26.2.23

unpublished story (1942)

"This is a total war, the idea of non=combatants is a non starter."
An English war correspondent Bob Randall (Richard Greene) returns from Dunkirk having been one of the last off the beaches. Annoyed he turns his attention to a pascifist group, but his story is spiked by Home Security. This only serves to get him mad, and determined to investigate Home Security and their attatchments to the peace movement. Are they Nazi sympathizers, or could they have been infiltrated by Nazi fifth columnists.
An interesting propaganda piece attacking defeatism in the midst of war, with a nice sideline in slice of life during the blitz.

16.8.11

the day will dawn (1942)


aka The Avengers.
"Scoop me for once."
1939 and Metcalfe (Hugh Williams) a racing correspondant is placed as a foreign correspondent in neutral Norway. There he comes across German activity within Norweagan waters and tries reporting these facts with the help of Kari (Deborah Kerr), but he is kidnapped by the Germans...and thus starts his many adventures.
A love story wrapped up in the openning salvo's of the Second World War.