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FILM : Went the Day Well?
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FILM / MOVIE TITLE	DATE	FILM STAR(S) WHO APPEAR IN THE LOCATION SCENES	FILM / MOVIE LOCATIONS / SCENES
Went the Day Well?	1942	Leslie Banks, Mervyn Johns, Thora Hird, Patricia Hayes, Harry Fowler	Turville, Buckinghamshire
Director : Alberto Cavalcanti Production Company : Ealing Region : SOUTH EAST R-Z Nazi invasion of small Buckinghamshire village, and the villagers giving them the cold steel up 'em. Excellent wartime propaganda. Photo 021 of the church shows it now without the war memorial seen in the film. I am almost certain that this was a prop for the film and not a real one. In the film ou can clearly see the names listed on it and it includes a Major G. Fraser. Mrs Fraser who lives in the manor house in Bramley End in the film is a sixty-something woman who is presumably a widow and it would tie in that her husband, never mentioned, would have probably held such a position in the army. The plaque commemorates 'the men of this parish who fell' rather than giving an actual location and that slight vagueness also suggests that it was no more real than the large cross for the German soldiers in the churchyard at the end of the film. Philip Anderton John Larkin states that Turville was also used in Dead of Night, 1945.
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Went the Day Well? - View from Cobstone Hill, over Turville, Buckinghamshire.

Went the Day Well?
wdw016a. View from Cobstone Hill, over Turville, Buckinghamshire.

wdw016an. Similar view now.

Went the Day Well?
wdw016b. View from Cobstone Hill, over Turville, Buckinghamshire.

wdw016bn. Similar view now.

Went the Day Well? - Cobstone Hill Mill. This windmill also appeared in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Dead of Night made in 1945 also made in Turville. John Larkin sent this information in. Thanks John.

Went the Day Well?
wdw017. Cobstone Hill Mill. This windmill also appeared in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Dead of Night made in 1945 also made in Turville. John Larkin sent this information in. Thanks John.

wdw017n. Now.

Went the Day Well? - A view of the village, which doesn't actually show the fake post office, unless it's hidden by the trees on the left.

Went the Day Well?
wdw018. A view of the village, which doesn't actually show the fake post office, unless it's hidden by the trees on the left.

wdw018n. Now, trees gone, cars parked where the phantom Post Office was built. Pub on the left.

Went the Day Well? - Photo kindly supplied by Eric Thurman, who confirmed that the Post Office never was! I really must try and get a life! The picture shows the pub, the white building and a timber store office on the right, now demolished.

Went the Day Well?
wdw018y. Photo kindly supplied by Eric Thurman, who confirmed that the Post Office never was! I really must try and get a life! The picture shows the pub, the white building and a timber store office on the right, now demolished.